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Azure Functions - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Scaling Applications with Microsoft Azure
Azure Functions
- [Instructor] Before we talk about durable functions, let's talk about Azure functions that support the durable functions. So Azure functions, they are serverless. We don't have any infrastructure, so we have a total abstraction of servers. Yeah, we still have servers in the back, but in our case, for the servers, we don't need to take them into account. They are very good for small sets of work, they are short-lived and event-driven. We can develop Azure functions using all sorts of languages, like C#, F#, JavaScript, Java, Python, PHP, and even scripting languages like Bash and PowerShell. We can also autoscaling them, if we're using for example, the Consumption plan, we don't even need to take care of autoscaling because autoscaling will be just taken into consideration by the Consumption plan. And it's, again, Microsoft that will take care of all of that. Also Azure functions have a very good integration with other Azure services, for example, Logic Apps, Event Hub. As an…
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