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    Article Summary

    In this section we will take a look at Azure Web Job.

    Product Recommendation

    Recommendation
    We believe you should be looking to use Azure Functions rather than Azure Webjobs where possible and especially for new work. If you have existing components as web jobs they are probably fine for the foreseeable but we think there will be some advantages to looking at refactoring them to functions to take advantages of investments in functions.

    What is it?

    A Web Job is a component that can run a piece of code as a background task. It is part of a Web App and runs a bit like a Windows Scheduled task or Windows Service.

    Target Use Cases

    The main places you may use a Web Job is for any background services to support your Web App. Maybe you have a Web App which writes a message to a Queue. The Web Job can process that queue in the background.

    Features

    The main features of a web job are:

    • Lots of language support such as .net, batch files, powershell, java
    • Can run as a single instance or scale out to many instances
    • Can be continuously running or scheduled

    Strengths

    The main strength of the Azure Web Job is in its simplicity. It very easy to get up and running with a web job to solve those out of process requirements you may have.

    Weaknesses

    The biggest weakness of the Azure Web Job is that it is hidden away underneath a Web App. This means that sometimes they get forgotten about.

    Dependancies

    The Web Job depends on an Azure Web App/App Service Plan and often needs the Web App to be turned to always on.

    Hosting

    The Web Job is hosted on the same App Service Plan as the Web App. Although at this time Web Jobs are not supported on Linux Web Apps.

    Costs

    The cost for a Web Job is soaked up in the cost for the App Service Plan which the Web Job belongs to.

    The related technologies for Web Jobs are@

    Functions

    Functions use the Web Job SDK. This means that they are very similar t

    Learn More

    • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/videos/azure-webjobs-advanced-programming/
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