Microsoft this month announced its Azure Functions -- for serverless cloud computing -- now supports .NET 5, a November 2020 umbrella offering that followed the .NET Core series of open source, ...

Microsoft announced several new features that are now generally available in the fall update of Azure Functions, used for event-driven serverless computing in the cloud.

One key Azure Functions feature is its portability, with the option of building Functions apps and a basic runtime in containers for deployment and testing.

If you’ve built code that works with any modern API-first design model, such as gRPC, then you won’t have any difficulty building a custom handler to work with Azure Functions.