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Azure for Developers - Third Edition
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In the previous chapters, we focused on developing web applications using traditional services, which allow us to host both our application’s code and its framework. Those services give you lots of flexibility and options but also require additional effort to configure the underlying infrastructure (even if it’s minimized when compared to hosting options based on an on-premises model). If you want to purely focus on app development, it’s possible to leverage serverless platforms and the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model, where you deploy only the parts of your application that bring actual value. One of Azure’s services allowing you to do so is Azure Functions.
In this chapter, we will delve into new topics, as we’re going to introduce the first serverless service. Through the course of the chapter, you’ll see that services such as Azure Functions aren’t very different when compared to Azure...