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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook

You're reading from   Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook Build and monitor Azure applications hosted on serverless architecture using Azure Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789615265
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Jason Marston Jason Marston
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Praveen Kumar Sreeram Praveen Kumar Sreeram
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Preface 1. Developing Cloud Applications Using Function Triggers and Bindings FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Notifications Using the SendGrid and Twilio Services 3. Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Azure Services 4. Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools 5. Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions 6. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services 7. Developing Reliable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions 8. Bulk Import of Data Using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB 9. Implementing Best Practices for Azure Functions 10. Configuring of Serverless Applications in the Production Environment 11. Implementing and Deploying Continuous Integration Using Azure DevOps 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing multithreaded reliable applications using Durable Functions

I have worked in a few applications where parallel execution is required to perform some computing tasks. The main advantage of this approach is that you get the desired output pretty quickly, depending on the sub-threads that you create. This can be achieved in multiple ways using different technologies. However, the challenge with these approaches is that, if something goes wrong in the middle of the sub-thread, it's not easy to self-heal and resume from where it stopped. I'm sure many of you might have faced similar problems in your application, as it is a very common business case.

In this recipe, we will implement a simple way of executing a function in parallel with multiple instances by using Durable Functions.

Let's assume that we have five customers (whose IDs are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5...

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