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What are the three Azure Functions hosting plans?
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Consumption (auto-scale, pay-per-use), Premium (pre-warmed, VNET), and Dedicated (App Service Plan with predictable billing).
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Q: What are the three Azure Functions hosting plans?
A: Consumption (auto-scale, pay-per-use), Premium (pre-warmed, VNET), and Dedicated (App Service Plan with predictable billing).
Q: What is a Durable Functions fan-out/fan-in pattern?
A: Start multiple functions in parallel (fan-out), then wait for all to complete before continuing (fan-in).
Q: How do deployment slots work?
A: Separate environments (staging, production) that can be swapped instantly. Slot settings stay with the slot; app settings travel with the code.
Q: What is the difference between ACI and Container Apps?
A: ACI runs single containers or groups on-demand. Container Apps adds Dapr integration, scaling rules, revisions, and ingress for microservices.
Q: When does a function cold start occur?
A: When a function app has been idle and no instances are allocated. The platform must provision an instance and load the function runtime.