I’ve always liked microservices because they embrace small, well-encapsulated building blocks. They mitigate deployment hell by treating each component of a software system as its own product, with versions, testing, and releases.

How to create your first Azure Functions app, consisting of a timer that runs on a schedule to trigger a build on Netlify, and a WebHook that runs in response to an HTTP request which clears the cache for a website in Cloudflare. This post covers the background, installing the prerequisites for developing Azure Functions with Visual Studio, building, and testing the app.