Modern applications are expected to be fast, scalable, and resilient. But in real-world systems, not everything should happen in a synchronous request-response flow. For example: An order is placed.

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The azure-functions Python library provides the core types used to interact with the Azure Functions runtime. To see all types and methods available, visit the azure-functions API. Your function code ...

The following behaviors of your functions can affect the execution time: Triggers and bindings: The time taken to read input from and write output to your function bindings counts as execution time.