Build with the Microsoft serverless application platform
Serverless computing enables developers to build applications faster by eliminating the need for them to manage infrastructure.
Azure Functions - Serverless Computing
Cloud providers have brought a revolution in the cloud market by introducing serverless computing services over the internet. Many top cloud providers such as Amazon Web services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform have launched serverless computing. Often the term serverless computing is misunderstood with a type of computing without servers. In actuality, servers run in the background to handle all operations, but cloud providers are responsible for managing, scaling up or down, and maintaining those servers.
Azure Functions provide the following features:
Flexible development
We can write our code directly to the portal or can set up continuous integration and deploy our code through Azure DevOps, GitHub, or any other supported development tools.
Integrated security
We can protect HTTP-triggered function with OAuth providers, such as Azure AD, Microsoft account, or other third-party accounts, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter
Allow selecting development language
It allows us to write a function in the language of our choice, such as C#, F#, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc. You can check the list of supported languages
Bring our own dependencies
Azure Functions allow us to download code dependencies from NuGet and NPM, so we can use libraries that need to execute our code and are available on either NuGet or NPM.
Pay per use price model
Azure provides a flexible consumption plan as per our requirement. Also, if we already use App service for our other application, we can run the function on the same plan. So, there is no additional cost we need to pay.
Open Source
The function runtime is open source.