Today's topic is a quite popular one, a fuzzy word getting more and more popular once it used to be a niche architectural pattern only. When we think about building software, a lot of the time and energy is spent thinking about where and how it will run. Serverless architecture, also known as Function as a Service or FaaS, helps this to change. Instead of planning the environment to run, developers mainly write functions and let cloud providers like AWS or Azure handle where it runs. Briefly describing, Serverless is an architectural model where cloud providers fully manage code execution.…
On Azure Functions and Serverless
There's no shortage of tools and technologies to make developers' lives easier In the world of cloud computing, and one such offering comes from Microsoft which is Azure Functions. Here, we'll unravel the magic behind Azure Functions and explore why it's becoming a favourite for certain architectures. At its core, Azure Functions is a serverless compute service. "Serverless" might sound misleading, as there definitely are servers involved; however, the idea is that the responsibility of server management, scaling, and infrastructure concerns are taken away from the developer. This allows us to focus on writing and deploying our code. Azure Functions…