[Azure] Figure out if to use serverless or load blalancer

[alonttal]

estimated time: 8 hours

[OrAbramovich]

Time estimation: 4 hours.
Due date: 26.05

[OrAbramovich]

Hi @Danielohayon ,

What is the status? Due date was yesterday.

[omrihuller]

the strategy for using azure

[omrihuller]

estimate: 0.5 hours

[Danielohayon]

Conclusion

After a lot of consideration we have concluded that the best way to go is with load balancing. This is because using serverless computing with Azure functions has it's drawbacks. Such as a need the change our server to be completely stateless which it is not right now, (One example is saving a token for the current connected user). In addition it's mentioned that the latency is a bit higher, while also not having a lot of documentation and support relatively to load balancing.
In addition as for load balancing it is much more suitable for our current situation. For example, the source IP address of the clients can be seen in the logs of the server which makes it easy to differentiate each of the clients that are connecting to the server. And it automatically deploys server in accordance with our current needs.

sources:

Azure Functions documentation
Azure Load Balancing documentation
Serverless computing pros and cons
Load Balancing pros and cons

Time Took:
4 hours.