035 - Running background jobs in the cloud

The need to run bits of code in the background appears for your services. We take a look at the plethora of services Azure exposes for this - including scheduled tasks in your virtual machines, WebJobs, Function Apps, Azure Batch, and container-based tasks with Azure Kubernetes Services. Join us for this episode to understand the benefits of these different options!

Show Notes

• Run background tasks with WebJobs in Azure App Service (Microsoft)
• How to run business logic as background jobs in Microsoft Azure (Jussi)
• Background jobs guidance (Microsoft)
• Azure Batch (Microsoft)

Creators and Guests

Host

Jussi Roine

Founder & CEO, Not Bad Security*

Host

Tobias Zimmergren

CTO, co-founder at pons.io | Co-host ctrlaltazure.com | Ex-Microsoft, ex-MVP.

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Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.