Azure SQL Database is a managed service that provides low-maintenance SQL Server instances in the cloud. You don’t have to run and update VMs, or even take backups and setup failover clusters.
Azure Functions are designed for stateless, fast-to-execute, simple actions. Typically, they are triggered by an HTTP call or a queue message, then they read something from the storage or database and return the result to the caller or send it to another queue.
I’m writing this post in the train to London Stensted, on my way back from F# Exchange 2018 conference.
F# Exchange is a yearly conference taking place in London, and 2018 edition was the first one for me personally.
Auto-provisioning and auto-scalability are the killer features of Function-as-a-Service cloud offerings, and Azure Functions in particular.
One drawback of such dynamic provisioning is a phenomenon called “Cold Start”.
