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Learning Azure Functions

You're reading from  Learning Azure Functions

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787122932
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Introducing Microsoft Azure Services and Functions 2. First Function App - Anatomy and Structure of a Function App 3. Application of Triggers 4. Bindings 5. Webhooks for Azure Functions 6. The Real World - Functions to Build Consumable APIs 7. Managing and Deploying your Code 8. Business Considerations 9. Working with Different Languages

Using an event with an Azure Function

Events are things that trigger our Azure Functions to run. Events can be HTTP endpoints, message queues, blob updates, and cron-scheduled events. To elaborate more by giving an example, what if you want to be notified when a file is uploaded on blob storage or you want to immediately process a file when it is uploaded to blob storage?

The following diagram shows how the Azure Function works, which gets triggered when an event occurs:

The following are the types of event that cause the function to run:

  • HTTP Trigger: This is an event that causes the function to run whenever it receives an HTTP request.
  • Timer Trigger: This type of trigger is run on the basis of a schedule. We can set the time for the trigger and the function runs at that specified time.
  • Queue Trigger: The Azure Function will run whenever a message is added to a specified Azure queue storage.
  • Blob Trigger: The Azure Function will run whenever a blob is added to a specified container, for example...
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