Throughput Testing at Scale for Azure Functions

Introduction Ensuring reliable, high-performance serverless applications is central to our work on Azure Functions. As new plans and features (like the Flex Consumption plan) continue to expand Functions’ capabilities, we need robust throughput testing. We built PerfBench (Performance Benchmarker) to measure, monitor, and maintain our performance metrics—catching regressions before they…

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