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Discussion on: GraphQL on Azure: Part 1 - Getting Started

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Aaron Powell

That is the way that I tend to go for it, but it does have the downside of cold start potentially impacting your GraphQL endpoint, which is why it's worth looking at App Service as well.

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Erik Guzman

Personally I did end up migrating to App Services, another reason to do so is "Subscription" types

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Aaron Powell

I haven't played with subscriptions in GraphQL yet, but I've got some ideas on how to tackle it using SignalR

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Shirish

Can you point to any working sample on how to get subscriptions working on Apollo Server with Azure functions. ?

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Aaron Powell

Conveniently I wrote a blog post about this today - dev.to/azure/graphql-on-azure-part...

The best way to have a server that provides Subscriptions is to implement it on App Service as Azure Functions doesn't provide a way in which you can connect to a WebSocket (given it's event driven, a persistent connection wouldn't fit the model).