Debugging a .NET Serverless App

Justin Hunter
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJan 18, 2021

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Serverless development has become the hot thing in tech. Renting time on a virtual machine only when you need it saves money and resources. However, there are many gotchas that can make working with serverless technology difficult if you’re not prepared. One such gotcha is event handling.

Unlike a Web Server applications, events in a serverless function act very similarly to console applications. Take AWS Lambda, for example. A Lambda function is going to spin up, execute, and spin down as quickly as it can. You want this. This is one of the key selling points of serverless…

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Justin Hunter
The Startup

Writer. Lead Product Manager, ClickUp. Tinkerer.