Exploring Azure Functions
Azure Functions is similar to Azure WebJobs, with some differences related to scaling policies, language support, and trigger events. They are both built on Azure App Service. Because Azure Functions is built on the WebJobs SDK, it shares the same triggers and connections with or to Azure services.
Azure Functions acts as a modern serverless architecture providing event-driven, configured cloud computing for application development.
In Azure Functions, there are two very important concepts: bindings and triggers.
When we create Azure Functions, we need to configure the name of the function. To call a function, we use triggers. A function must have at least one trigger. The function name and the triggers are configured in the function.json file. We have more information in the configuration file, such as on bindings. We use constraints to have input and output bindings, and all of them will allow you to connect with databases from your code. All of...
