Episode

Chris Gillum - Serverless workflows with Durable Functions

In this episode of On .NET, Chris Gillum (@cgillum) from the Azure Functions team stops by to talk to us about Durable Functions. With Durable Functions, you can create stateful workflows in a serverless environment.

[00:31] - What does Durable mean?
[01:31] - How long has the service been around?
[01:55] - What are some of the use cases?
[04:19] - Chris shows some demos of Durable Functions
[06:00] - What do we really get from using this?
[08:30] - What are some of the Orchestration models this enables?
[12:58] - What does the API surface look like?
[18:51] - What flavors are .NET does Durable Functions support?

Remember to check out the documentation and GitHub repos listed below.

Durable Functions documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable-functions-overview
Azure Functions documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/
Github Repo - https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
Durable task framework - https://github.com/Azure/durabletask

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[00:31] - What does Durable mean?
[01:31] - How long has the service been around?
[01:55] - What are some of the use cases?
[04:19] - Chris shows some demos of Durable Functions
[06:00] - What do we really get from using this?
[08:30] - What are some of the Orchestration models this enables?
[12:58] - What does the API surface look like?
[18:51] - What flavors are .NET does Durable Functions support?

Remember to check out the documentation and GitHub repos listed below.

Durable Functions documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable-functions-overview
Azure Functions documentation - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/
Github Repo - https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
Durable task framework - https://github.com/Azure/durabletask

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