This Functions Framework is based on the Python Runtime on Google Cloud Functions. On Cloud Functions, using the Functions Framework is not necessary: you don't need to add it to your requirements.txt ...

To memoize a function in Python, we can use a utility supplied in Python’s standard library—the functools.lru_cache decorator. lru_cache isn’t hard to use.

Build, test, debug, and publish using Azure Functions Core Tools (CLI) or Visual Studio Code; Deploy Python Function project onto consumption, dedicated, elastic premium, or flex consumption plan.