Features of Azure Functions

Azure Functions offer developers a rich set of features. Refer to the Microsoft documentation to read up more on Azure Functions—https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/. For now, we will have a look at a few of those features.

Choice of languages

The great thing about Azure Functions is that you can create them in a language of your choice. For a list of supported languages, browse to the following URL:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/supported-languages.

For this chapter, we will be using C# to write the Azure Function.

Pay-per-use pricing

As mentioned earlier, you will only pay for the actual time spent that your Azure Function runs. The consumption plan is billed per second. Microsoft have a great document on Azure Functions pricing at the following URL:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/.

Flexible development

You can create your Azure Functions directly in the Azure portal. You can also set up continuous...