Introduction to Azure WebJobs
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3 min readFeb 12, 2017
Azure WebJobs to me are same old Windows Services, but better! Hosted in the Azure cloud with tons of features around them, like debugging, scaling, scheduling, instrumentation and so on.
Azure Webjobs lets us run scripts or programs as background processes on App Service Web Apps. You can simply upload and run an executable file such as as cmd, bat, exe (.NET), ps1, sh, php, py, js and jar. These programs run…