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- [Narrator] Now a bit of new and a bit of review here on this slide. A common tool that we can as Azure data engineers implement to supplement our data pipelines, is Azure Functions. Azure Functions is part of Azure App Service, so it's a hosted compute solution. It's a so-called serverless product, where you're basically hosting a single code file and it's going to run on a virtual machine scale set that Microsoft manages. When you create a function, you specify a trigger. There are a number of trigger templates that trip off that single code file. We've got an HTTP. This would be, for instance, a post, just a a web hook as it's called. If you want your function to operate on a schedule, you can use the Timer trigger template. There's one that's very useful for operating on any event throughout Azure Resource Manager, that would be Event Grid. If you have just data coming into a service bus queue that, again…

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