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Other function trigger types - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure Essential Training for Developers
Other function trigger types
- All Azure Functions require exactly one trigger, which is the action that starts the execution of your function code. There are a variety of trigger types available that work with many common scenarios. For example, TimerTriggers are great for executing functions on a predetermined schedule that you define. Use TimerTriggers to say, retrigger builds on Netlifly to publish scheduled blog posts, or to kick off a daily web job to process help request tickets. Another example are QueueTriggers, which allow you to respond to messages as they arrive in an Azure storage queue. These can be essential to functions that process a lot of data, like resolving matches for a catalog of products, or logging some metadata before moving the message to the next phase of a workflow. If a queue trigger happens to fail, Azure Functions automatically retries the function up to five more times before adding it to something called a poison…
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