Azure Functions is a serverless computing platform offered by Microsoft as a part of Azure Cloud. All design goals are the same as other serverless/FaaS services, and Azure Functions enables us to execute our application logic without managing our own infrastructure.
Azure Functions runs a program in the form of scripts when it is triggered by events. The current version of Azure Functions supports language runtimes such as C#, F#, PHP, Node.js or Java. It is natural for Azure to support C# and F# as first-class languages for their functions because they are Microsoft-owned programming languages. In any case, the only GA-supported languages are C#, F#, and JavaScript (Node.js) anyway.
With C#, F#, or .NET languages, Azure Functions allows us to install dependencies via NuGet, the infamous package manager for .NET. In case we are writing JavaScript with Node.js, Azure also provides access to NPM for package management.
Similar to other cloud providers, Azure Functions has an...