Azure is a public cloud computing platform powered by Microsoft. Microsoft Azure was first made available to the public in February 2010. Azure data centers are currently available in 40 regions across many countries and are expanding at a rapid rate. Azure offers a variety of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS products. In addition to native Azure products and services, thousands of third-party products can be hosted on the Azure platform.
In this book, we will focus on a native Azure service called the Azure Functions, which is Microsoft' s primary offer for serverless computing.
The Azure Functions is a Functions as a Service (FaaS) offering. As discussed earlier, in a typical Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, you are responsible for managing your application and data layers, while the vendor manages the hardware, middleware, OS, servers, and networking. In a FaaS environment, the vendor also manages the application context, and you can focus solely on implementing a particular...
