Azure Functions, the future of SaaS
Introduction Recently, I have had the chance to use Azure Functions as candidate for the design and development of a service, which will be delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). Azure Functions is a relatively recent technology, and as a consequence, I have realized many people didn't heard of it yet. For this reason, I would like to write this post as a brief introduction and my personal experience using it at the present. What is Azure Functions? Azure Functions provide a framework to build and manage easily serverless oriented architectures. The idea behind Azure Functions is that you have a piece of code, which provides a functionality. In order to execute your piece of code, Azure functions introduce the concept of " trigger ". A trigger can be an HTTP request, a timer, a message in a queue, a modification on a Blog, etc. In addition, Azure Functions provides the concept of " bindings " Binding to a function is a way of declaratively connect...