Deep dive into Azure Durable Functions

Overview

The Durable Functions extension to Azure Functions allows developers to build workflows using higher level abstractions. But what is really going on under the hood? It can be useful to know how all the pieces connect in case you are every trying to solve a trickier issue. In this presentation, we will take a deep dive into the internals of the Durable Functions extension and the Durable Task framework. In addition to the default Azure Storage durability provider, we will look at the other officially supported providers and how they differ in their implementations.

Speaker

Joonas Westlin

Azure Architect/Developer and Azure MVP at Zure Ltd

Joonas has been working with Microsoft technologies as a hobby since the first version of .NET framework. Currently he works as a software developer at Zure, a company specializing in developing software on Microsoft Azure using its PaaS offerings. He is one of the 6 Azure MVPs in Finland. Joonas is currently the global #1 for Entra ID answers on Stack Overflow (and #6 for Azure overall).