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Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese
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Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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Azure Functions roadmap

The structure of Azure Functions has changed since it was rolled out in 2016. The number of people using the tool and the changes related to .NET caused some compatibility problems that saw Microsoft come up with a new way of delivering the deployment of functions. This new way is called the isolated process model, and it has been available since .NET 5. It is also important to mention that the currently supported available runtime versions for Azure Functions are v1 and v4.

According to the current roadmap, using the isolated process model is the only way to run Azure Functions in .NET 8 and future versions. There is a plan to have the in-process model for .NET 8, but no date has been confirmed yet.

thumbnail image 1 captioned A diagram showing the change in release patterns after parity. .NET 8 has an in-process model option on a delay after the isolated worker model. All subsequent updates use the isolated worker model.

Figure 16.10: Azure Functions roadmap

As a software architect, you must keep an eye on the roadmaps provided so that you can decide on the best implementation for your solution.

When implementing an Azure function using the isolated process...

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Gabriel Baptista

Gabriel Baptista has been working with software development since the beginning of .NET. Today, his main contributions are managing numerous projects for retail and industry. He is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution specialist, teaches at Computing Engineering universities, and helps tech startups as a mentor.
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Francesco Abbruzzese

Francesco Abbruzzese dedicates his life to his two great passions: software and powerlifting. He is the author of the MVC Controls Toolkit and the Blazor Controls Toolkit libraries. He has contributed to the diffusion and evangelization of the Microsoft web stack since the first version of ASP.NET. His company, Mvcct Team, offers web applications, tools, and services for web technologies. He has moved from AI systems, where he implemented one of the first decision support systems for financial institutions, to top-10 video game titles such as Puma Street Soccer.
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