Business problem

In general, every organization uses applications that are hosted on multiple platforms across different datacenters (either on the cloud or on-premises). Often, there will be a need to feed data from one application to another system. Usually, CSV spreadsheets (or, in some cases, JSON or XML files) are used to export data from one application and import it into another application.

You may think that exporting CSV files from one application to another would be a straightforward job, but if there are many applications that need to feed data to other applications, and on a weekly/monthly basis, then this process would become very tedious and there is a lot of scope for manual error. So, the solution is obviously to automate the process as far as possible.

In this chapter, we'll learn how to develop a durable solution based on serverless architecture using Durable Functions. Chapter 7, Developing reliable serverless applications using durable functions, already...