You may have a small bit of processing that needs to be done. You write the code, it’s simple enough, but your big problem now is where to run the code? You consider the cloud but why spin up an entire VM just to run your small bit of code? There should be a way to just run your code and just be charged when its running and not when it’s idol. Azure Functions was created just for this scenario. With a wide range of languages, including C#, you can quickly develop code that runs in the cloud that is triggered by an event or a scheduler.
In this session, I’ll give a brief overview of Azure Functions and the new severless model. I’ll show you how to create your own functions and I’ll demo a function that parses web logs and outputs them to an Azure SQL Database.
