Why Azure WebJobs?

Azure WebJobs are a great resource included in Azure App Service plans. They provide a way for you to run binaries or scripts that perform scheduled or event-triggered job processing for work that isn’t suited to be done during a normal web request. Have a monthly cleanup task for your website? Sending a big batch of emails? Need to process some user uploaded files? These are all great examples of things you can throw into a WebJob.
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