Parent: Azure
Overall very similar to AWS Lambda. It’s a serverless event driven compute service that is trigger based. You place a program written in the plethora of languages that it supports (Python, Ruby, Java, .NET, Node.js etc.) and trigger it via:
- HTTP requests
- Database changes
- Messages queues
- File uploads
- IoT inputs
- Time trigger (CRON like scheduler)
Use cases
- Web API’s
- Scheduled tasks
- Event driven data processing
- Message processing
- AI data pipelines (sending data to AI services)