Azure Function App — Queue-Based Architecture for Long-Running Sync Jobs (opens in new tab)

The Problem: HTTP Triggers and Long-Running Jobs Don't Mix Here's a situation you've probably run into: you have a job that needs to loop over dozens of Azure resources, call APIs, and do real work. You wrap it in an HTTP-triggered Azure Function so it can be called on demand. It works great and after a few minutes, the caller gets a 504 Gateway Timeout. ⭐ This isn't a bug. Azure (like most cloud platforms) enforces a hard 230-second HTTP response timeout at the load balancer level — no matte...