Azure Functions vs stdlib

Azure Functions vs stdlib: What are the differences?

Developers describe Azure Functions as "Listen and react to events across your stack". Azure Functions is an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that extends the existing Azure application platform with capabilities to implement code triggered by events occurring in virtually any Azure or 3rd party service as well as on-premises systems. On the other hand, stdlib is detailed as "The Standard Library for Functions as a Service". It is the fastest, easiest way to build infinitely scalable, self-healing APIs. Standard Library is based on Function as a Service ("serverless") architecture, initially popularized by AWS Lambda. You can use Standard Library to build modular, scalable APIs for yourself and other developers in minutes without having to manage servers, gateways, domains, write documentation, or build SDKs. Your development workflow has never been easier - focus on writing code you love, let Standard Library handle everything else.

Azure Functions and stdlib belong to "Serverless / Task Processing" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Azure Functions are:

• Easily schedule event-driven tasks across services
• Expose Functions as HTTP API endpoints
• Scale Functions based on customer demand

On the other hand, stdlib provides the following key features:

• Code online — Browser-based editor
• Version-controlled API releases
• Easy API sharing and access control

stdlib is an open source tool with 3.64K GitHub stars and 181 GitHub forks. Here's a link to stdlib's open source repository on GitHub.