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Azure for Developers

You're reading from   Azure for Developers Implement rich Azure PaaS ecosystems using containers, serverless services, and storage solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803240091
Length 632 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Kamil Mrzygłód Kamil Mrzygłód
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Table of Contents (32) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: PaaS and Containers
2. Chapter 1: Web Applications in Azure – Azure App Service FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Using Azure Container Registry for Storing and Managing Images 4. Chapter 3: Deploying Web Applications as Containers 5. Chapter 4: Using Azure Container Instances for Ad Hoc Application Hosting 6. Chapter 5: Building a Search Engine with Azure Cognitive Search 7. Chapter 6: Mobile Notifications with Notification Hubs 8. Part 2: Serverless and Reactive Architecture
9. Chapter 7: Serverless and Azure Functions 10. Chapter 8: Durable Functions 11. Chapter 9: Integrating Different Components with Logic Apps 12. Chapter 10: Swiss Army Knife – Azure Cosmos DB 13. Chapter 11: Reactive Architecture with Event Grid 14. Part 3: Storage, Messaging, and Monitoring
15. Chapter 12: Using Azure Storage – Tables, Queues, Files, and Blobs 16. Chapter 13: Big Data Pipeline – Azure Event Hubs 17. Chapter 14: Real-Time Data Analysis – Azure Stream Analytics 18. Chapter 15: Enterprise Integration – Azure Service Bus 19. Chapter 16: Using Application Insights to Monitor Your Applications 20. Chapter 17: SQL in Azure – Azure SQL 21. Chapter 18: Big Data Storage – Azure Data Lake 22. Part 4: Performance, Scalability, and Maintainability
23. Chapter 19: Scaling Azure Applications 24. Chapter 20: Serving Static Content Using Azure CDN 25. Chapter 21: Managing APIs with Azure API Management 26. Chapter 22: Building a Scalable Entry Point for Your Service with Azure Front Door 27. Chapter 23: Azure Application Gateway as a Web Traffic Load Balancer 28. Chapter 24: Distributing Load with Azure Traffic Manager 29. Chapter 25: Tips and Tricks in Azure 30. Index 31. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is Durable Functions?

In most cases, the best idea for working with Azure Functions is to keep them stateless. This makes things much easier as you do not have to worry about sharing resources and storing state. However, there are cases where you would like to access it and distribute it between different instances of your functions. In such scenarios (such as orchestrating a workflow or scheduling a task to be done), a better option to start with would be to leverage the capabilities of Durable Functions, an extension to the main runtime, which changes the way you work somewhat.

The Durable Functions framework changes the way Azure Functions works as it lets you resume from where the execution was paused or stopped and introduces the possibility to take the output of one function and pass it as input. To get started, you don't need any extra extensions—the only thing you will need is the very same extension in Visual Studio Code that you used for standard...

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