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5. Azure Durable Functions

Rahul Sawhney1   and Kalyan Chanumolu1
(1)
Hyderabad, India
 
Over the course of this chapter, we will cover the following durable function topics.

  • Overview

  • Bindings

  • Performance and scale

  • Creating through the Azure portal

  • Disaster recovery and geodistribution

Overview of Durable Functions

Durable Functions is an extension to Azure Functions that helps you build reliable, stateful apps in a serverless environment and define workflows in your code. The Azure Functions platform manages checkpoints, states, and restarts for you.

Durable Functions uses ...

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