In Python, the mere act of making a function call incurs a relatively large amount of overhead. If some function is called repeatedly in a tight loop, even if it isn’t a long-running function ...

"You can now develop Python 3.6 apps to run on the cross-platform, open source Functions 2.0 runtime," said Daria Grigoriu of the Azure Functions team in an Aug. 19 blog post. "These can be published ...