Azure Functions allow developers to write serverless applications, meaning that developers or operations do not have to worry about the infrastructure on which the application executes. In many scenarios, application or business needs require a small piece of logic to be reused by other services for some small task to be performed based on an event such as sending a notification to user when a message is sent to a queue.
Such tasks were previously handled by WebJobs or scripts, which are difficult to reuse and connect in a flow of logic. Azure Functions give developers the ability to wrap the logic in a Nanoservice that can connect and communicate with other services to carry out the logic flow.
Azure Functions is part of web and mobile suite of services in Azure. In addition to Visual Studio tooling, you can design and manage Azure Functions...
