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Mastering Azure Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Mastering Azure Serverless Computing A practical guide to building and deploying enterprise-grade serverless applications using Azure Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789951226
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Massimo Bonanni Massimo Bonanni
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Lorenzo Barbieri Lorenzo Barbieri
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Azure Functions 2.0 Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER
2. Developing and Running Azure Functions 3. Customizing Your Azure Functions 4. Programming Languages Supported in Azure Functions 5. Section 2: Azure Functions 2.0 Deployment and Automation
6. Deploying and Configuring Your Azure Functions 7. Leverage the Power of DevOps with Azure Functions 8. Testing and Monitoring 9. Serverless and Containers 10. Section 3: Serverless Orchestration, API Management, and Event Processing
11. Orchestration as Code - Durable Functions 12. Orchestration as Design - Logic Apps 13. Empowering Your Serverless API with API Management 14. High-Scale Serverless Event Processing with Event Grid 15. Section 4: Real-World Serverless Use Cases
16. Best Practices and Use Cases for Azure Serverless Computing 17. Assessments 18. Another Book You May Enjoy

What are Durable Functions?

In the previous chapters, you saw how Azure Functions work and what you can do with them. The first thing that comes to your mind when you think about what you cannot do with Azure Functions is that you cannot call a function from another function. In other words, you cannot orchestrate a sequence of function calls inside an Azure Function.

Fortunately, if you need to do something like this, you can use Durable Functions.

Durable Functions is an extension of Azure Functions that allows you to orchestrate functions and implement complex scenarios.

Some of the possible scenarios are as follows:

  • Chain: In this scenario, you need to call a set of functions in an exact order and pass the result of one of them to the next one:

You can implement a similar scenario using an external service (for example, a storage queue), one for each call, to place the...

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