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Use-cases for Azure Functions in apps

Use-cases for Azure Functions in apps

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Use-cases for Azure Functions in apps

- [Instructor] At this point, you might be wondering what other use cases there might be for using Azure Functions in mobile apps. Since Azure Functions are very easy to draft, they are perfect for some prototyping. You've seen how easy it is to create a new function from the Azure Portal and even make code adjustments there. This way, you can create a mock backend in a matter of minutes. Something that is inseparable for mobile apps is push notifications. Azure Functions are very well suited to send push notifications. Because functions can have a variety of triggers, you can easily trigger a push notification whenever a record is added in the database, or a message is put on a queue, for example. When you use the Azure Notification Hub to send push messages, you don't even have to write code to send an actual push message, you can simply use the built-in output binding. Another use case that is pretty common is image processing. This is usually not something you want to be waiting…

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