For example, if you want your Azure Function to be executed when a new document is created in the database, you can create a Cosmos DB trigger and add the necessary code to handle the event.

The last time we looked at Azure Functions, I introduced you to the basic triggers you can use with them.There are a number of events that can cause functions to begin execution ("triggered"), one of ...

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You can write function code to extract different data items depending on what’s configured in GitHub. Configuring a GitHub Webhook Trigger In this example, the function will be called every time a new ...

Visual Studio Code also gained an Azure Functions extension, making it easier for Java developers to write functions and then deploy them to Microsoft’s service using the cross-platform text editor.

Oracle also introduced and open sourced its own serverless computing offering -- known as Project Fn -- at JavaOne 2017. With Fn, developers using Oracle Cloud Platform can build and run applications ...