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Same as Azure Functions. Internally at Microsoft everyone knows that it’s completely broken and they don’t understand why customers use it either. Apparently it was due to an extremely dysfunctional team and certain team members.

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Why are Azure Functions completely broken?

Have a play with AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions, then compare that with Azure Functions and you might wonder if what Azure has done is even remotely “serverless” FaaS or just a huge messy clusterfuck of an App Service which is billed per second and overly complicated to manage and observe.

All 3 clouds have the same fundamental architecture. There's no magic "serverless", everything is just compiled down to a container or some executable package, placed on a server, executed as requests come in, and then paused with varying control and scheduling parameters.

Azure is a little messier than the rest but the end result is the same.

Get something-out-the-door to compete with Lambda and GCF by hacking together an abstraction over Azure App Services - then improve things by version 2?

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