From the course: Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure

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Azure WebJobs overview

Azure WebJobs overview - Azure Tutorial

From the course: Developing Long-Running Tasks with Microsoft Azure

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Azure WebJobs overview

- [Teacher] When creating long running tasks one of the options that we have on Azure is to use the Azure WebJobs. So let's check what Azure WebJobs are and how can they help us in executing long running tasks. So Azure WebJobs are a feature of the Azure App Service. We can host them and run them within the Azure App Service with no additional costs. They are used to run background tasks so very good to run long running tasks and they also can use the Azure WebJobs SDK that will help us running and trigger WebJobs so I can just create for example an Azure storage queue. I have a queue, I have messages in my queue, and every time that I have a message in my queue my Azure WebJob will be triggered. Azure WebJobs, they can run on demand, continuously, or based on a schedule. So let's see some business cases for this. So I can connect this to a queue mechanism and this will shift, basically, the pattern that we have with queues, the queue messaging pattern and then I can just run my Azure…

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