Azure Serverless

As you may have noticed, in modern cloud applications, PaaS components are more abundant than IaaS resources. Here, application VMs are replaced with smaller application containers, and the database as a platform replaces the clustered database servers. Azure Serverless takes infrastructure and platform management one step further. In a serverless resource model, such as Azure Functions, event-driven application logic is executed on-demand on a platform that is provisioned, scaled, and managed by the platform itself. In the Azure Serverless platform, event triggers can vary from message queues to webhooks, with intrinsic integration into various resources within the ecosystem.

Azure functions

Azure functions are managed, event-driven logic implementations that can provide lightweight ad hoc solutions for the cloud architecture. In Azure functions, the engineering team is not only oblivious to the execution infrastructure, but also to the platform, since Azure...