AZ-104: Pass!

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:15:00 +0000

Azure!

I’ve been quiet over the last month or so! Caught a bad flu and have been head-down, studying, and working on some projects at $DayJob.

I’ve also passed the AZ-104 earlier this month with a score of ~900. This was a somewhat tricky one. The exam goes in depth into any & all of the objectives. You will need to use the documentation (which, thank goodness, is available) for some questions. I didn’t find any of the questions unfair but I caught at least one error on the test.

Intro to Azure Functions

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Introduction

Azure Functions is a “serverless” PaaS offering like AWS Lambda. Its main draw is allowing you to run event-driven code, rather than containers or virtual machines (though you can still run containers if you’d like). This “serverless” platform effectively abstracts away the underlying virtual machine/compute entirely and allows you to just run your code.

And, as with any Azure product, you pay only for what you use - in this case, that means your event-driven code is only billed when it’s running (per gigabyte of memory used, per second, not VMs billed per minute.. and usually left on 24/7/365). This is in contrast to something like Azure Container Instances, which will bill you for the underlying VMs regardless of actual usage (though you can scale in and scale out, you’re still paying for the VMs).

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AZ-104: Pass!

Azure!

Intro to Azure Functions

Introduction