Azure Functions is a Microsoft Azure service that allows us to run code in a serverless way. We will deploy small pieces of code called functions. Functions are deployed in groups, called function apps. When we are creating a function app, we need to select whether we want it to run on a consumption plan or on an App Service plan. We select a consumption plan if we want the application to be completely serverless, while with an App Service plan, we have to specify the requirements of the server. With a consumption plan, we pay for the execution time and for how much memory the function uses. One benefit of an App Service plan is that you can configure it to be Always-On, and you won't have any cold starts as long as you don't have to scale up to more instances. The big benefit of a consumption plan is that it will always scale according to which resources are needed at that time.
There are several ways in which a function...
