Architect vs Azure Functions: What are the differences?
Architect: The simplest, most powerful way to build serverless applications. Create, deploy, and maintain next-generation AWS cloud function-based serverless infrastructure with full local, offline workflows, and more; Azure Functions: 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.
Architect and Azure Functions can be categorized as "Serverless / Task Processing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Architect are:
- Version control your architecture and create cloud infra in minutes from an .arc manifest
- Deploy in seconds with first class support for staging and production
- Work locally while completely offline with a speedy in-memory database
On the other hand, Azure Functions provides the following key features:
- Easily schedule event-driven tasks across services
- Expose Functions as HTTP API endpoints
- Scale Functions based on customer demand
Architect is an open source tool with 594 GitHub stars and 48 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Architect's open source repository on GitHub.
