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Azure Durable Functions: not necessarily suitable for orchestrating large numbers of tasks

by Patrick Lee on 20 Apr 2021 in categories tech BigData with tags Functions SErverless Azure

Microsoft's Durable Functions (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable/durable-functions-overview?tabs=csharp ) are a very useful tool for performing some complex tasks in a robust serverless way. But in situations where there is a large number of different tasks involved, they introduce their own overhead which can slow things down significantly. This is because if there ...