Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

Chapter 3

Azure Durable Functions

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Create a Durable Function to process orders
• Create a stateful serverless workflow with human interaction
• Handle errors from child processes

This chapter gives a description of Durable Functions and how they resolve some of the issues around errors spreading through a complex system, as well as assist in scaling.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we looked at serverless scaling patterns and learned how to make serverless applications scale to millions of users. A large part of this revolves around shifting workloads to asynchronous methods. This is a great thing to do, but can lead to quite complex state management for long-running ...