Developing Ballerina applications with Azure Functions
Azure is a leading cloud application development platform for hosting cloud applications. Azure provides Azure Functions as a serverless solution to build Function as a Service (FaaS) applications. Ballerina provides built-in libraries to create Azure functions. In this section, we will learn how to implement a serverless application with the Ballerina language. We begin by learning about the Azure platform that provides different cloud solutions.
Introducing Azure cloud features
Azure is a cloud service offered by Microsoft that has distributed data centers around the world. Azure provides computing, storage, and network solutions to build cloud applications. Azure pricing is based on the resources you have consumed, in other words, a pay-as-you-go approach. Azure gives you some free credits with the trial subscription to try out their cloud platform.
Azure Portal is the management portal where you can manage Azure Cloud...