Solving Complex Problems with Durable Functions with Josh Carlisle

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Applications are growing more and more complex every day. Whether it's orchestrating calls between heavily asynchronous and distributed services, managing complex user interactions, or simply trying to take advantage of the massive scale of the cloud, most modern applications today have very complex business processes. Invariably many can also take advantage of orchestrators and workflows to help manage this complexity. There have been many platforms over the years that have worked to address this challenge from classic platforms such as Windows Workflow Foundation and BizIQ to modern cloud-native solutions on Azure, such as Logic Apps and Power Automation (formerly Flow). Many of these platforms unfortunately also suffer from the impedance mismatch going from traditional code to declarative workflows. In this talk, you're going to learn how Durable Functions, an extension to Azure Functions, can help you manage the complexity of modern cloud-native applications all from within your code, in our case .net, and with all the power of an advanced Serverless platform. We will start with an overview of Azure Functions before moving on to discovering how we can significantly simplify several common patterns such as function chaining, fan-out/fan-in, async HTTP calls, monitoring, human interaction, and aggregation with Durable Entities. Along the way, you'll learn how Durable Functions works behind the scenes and get insights into the developer and debugging experience.

About Josh
Josh Carlisle is from Raleigh, NC and is an engineer with the AppDynamics team at Cisco and also a Microsoft MVP with Azure. He has been a developer for over 20 years from the early days working with Visual Basic and ASP in the 90s, to the birth of .Net, to the explosive growth of the cloud and Microsoft Azure Today. He has been engaging with the community for most of his career and can be found speaking at conferences and community events throughout the world. He has a special focus on cloud native technology and Serverless platforms such as Azure Functions.

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