In Microsoft Azure, we can develop background services known as WebJobs, and these WebJobs can be hooked up by other applications using WebHooks. In this section, we will study WebJobs in detail, learn to develop long-running background services, and use WebHook to invoke their methods from external applications.
Background services and event handling in cloud
WebJobs
WebJobs are background services that can be run by triggering from outside sources, on-demand, or continuous. They run under the same Web App and are managed by Azure Service Fabric. These are a good choice when we have to run an application as a background process for a longer run. One Web App can have a multiple number of WebJobs, and they can all share the same memory, CPU usage, and storage. As...