Creating and Deploying a Function App in Azure
One of the critical decisions architects and developers make in the phase of architecting a new cloud software or application is how to connect to the backend services, run background processing, run backend tasks, and carry out more tasks, such as scheduling and sending emails, without affecting the main application processing. For this, the Azure Functions app can be useful.
We can use Azure Functions to execute code in a cloud environment in a serverless way. All we need to do is to write less code with a low cost for a specific problem without caring about the whole application, even the infrastructure where we will run it. We will focus, in this case, on logic and business scope. We can execute Azure Functions in response to events as well.
In this chapter, we will cover the basic concepts of Azure Functions and the hosting plan options. We will explore the development of Azure functions and develop durable functions, which...