Background Functions in Practice
When you start working with cloud computing, especially while working with Platform as a Service (PaaS), one of the challenges you may encounter is how to enable background work if your solution is based on instances that require a request before processing. One of the answers to this problem is the use of serverless to process this background job. In Azure, you will find Azure Functions triggers that can help you with this.
In this chapter, we will discuss three of them: the timer trigger, Blob storage trigger, and queue storage trigger. It is important to mention that we covered their basics in Chapter 1, Demystifying Serverless Applications, but we will start to implement them now.
Together with their implementation, we will present an alternative to the publication of Azure Functions inside Visual Studio. We will also check how to monitor these functions. Understanding the advantages and disadvantages and when these functions are a good...
