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“…we thought it would be more meaningful to focus on functions that would allow everyone in the company to utilize their own data and gain insights from it.”
Daisuke Goto, Group Manager of Modular Design Group, DPI Department, Digital Innovation Division, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
“The solution proposed taking these data, centralizing them digitally, so we could use them for decision-making and making them available to physicians."
Igor de Paula, IT Coordinator, Dataside (Microsoft Partner)
"Azure, unlike other clouds, doesn’t force isolation. So, that matches with blockchain, where not everything has to be behind private networks. That works perfectly for us, because blockchain is public.”
David Lebee, Chief Software Architect, Gluwa
"Working with Azure makes everything we’re doing quicker. Instead of running one experiment, we can run many, training the model with much bigger datasets.”
Azure Functions is a serverless solution that allows you to write less code, maintain less infrastructure, and save on costs. Instead of worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the up-to-date resources needed to keep your applications running.
You focus on the code that matters most to you, in the most productive language for you, and Azure Functions handles the rest.
Azure Functions allows you to implement your system's logic as event-driven, readily available blocks of code. These code blocks are called "functions". You write your function code in your preferred language using your favorite development tools and then deploy your code to the Azure cloud. Functions provides native support for developing in C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, plus the ability to use more languages, such as Rust and Go.
Avoid hard-coding access to other services like Azure Blob storage and Azure Cosmos DB using triggers and bindings. Triggers are what cause a function to run, and bindings are declarations that connect the function to another resource.
Create and test functions on your local machine using your favorite code editor and development tools. Connect local functions to live Azure services and debug them on your local computer using the full Functions runtime. The requirements for developing functions on your local computer depend on the programming languages and tools you prefer.
Running Functions on Container Apps is a good fit for multitype microservices architecture in a centralized environment. This gives you consistent network, observability, and billing configurations.
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