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Azure Functions architecture and anatomy

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Azure Functions architecture and anatomy

- [Instructor] In this video, we'll see the Azure Functions architecture and the anatomy of an Azure Functions project. This comes in handy if you want to take full advantage of the platform and understand how its different pieces fit together. Azure Functions is built on top of Azure App Service and the Azure WebJobs as the key. Azure WebJobs, is a feature of Azure App Service that enables you to run background processes in the same instance as a web app. Additionally, the Azure WebJobs as the K includes the bindings and triggers infrastructure that works with many extra services such as Blobs, Queues, Tables and Service Bus. In other words Azure App Service provides the hosting infrastructure for your function apps. This is quite important to know because you can have all the benefits that App Service offers writing juror function applications, such as CI/CD pipelines, deployment slots, docker container support, amongst…

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