A new look at Azure Durable Functions

Zone’s principal architect, Andy Butland examines how the durable functions framework has matured over the past couple of years…

A couple of years ago I had opportunity to speak, write and work with what was then a new serverless Azure technology, Durable Functions, based on top of the Azure Functions framework for the purposes of handling long-running or multi-stage tasks. As part of investigating the technology I built a couple of sample applications using both durable functions and the standard functions framework by itself, and compared and contrasted the…