Making Sense of #azure Durable Functions
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Stateful Workflows on top of Stateless #serverless Cloud Functions — this is the essence of the Azure Durable Functions library. That’s a lot of fancy words in one sentence, and they might be hard for the majority of readers to understand.Please join me on the journey where I’ll try to explain how those buzzwords fit together. I will do this in 3 steps:Describe the context of modern cloud applications relying on serverless architecture;Identify the limitations of basic approaches to composing applications out of the simple building blocks;Explain the solutions that Durable Functions offer for those problems.MicroservicesTraditionally, server-side applications were built in a style which is now referred to as Monolith. If multiple people and teams were developing parts of the same application, (...)