Azure Durable Functions - Stateful workflow on top of Stateless Architecture

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Claims that Azure Durable Functions turn stateless Azure Functions into long‑running, stateful workflows by combining a single orchestrator/client/activity model with timers and retries, demonstrates a leave‑approval workflow that waits seven days and escalates, shows fan‑out/fan‑in parallel activity aggregation, and proves local debugging in Visual Studio/VS Code plus deployment from the Azure portal. Uses C#, F#, JavaScript, Python and PowerShell and standard package managers, and publishes a working example to GitHub so the pattern runs end‑to‑end in Azure.

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1. 0:00Azure Durable Functions intro
2. 1:15Azure Functions basics
3. 5:58Azure Functions benefits
4. 8:05Scaling and costs in Azure Functions
5. 12:16Durable vs regular Functions
6. 15:05Why Durable Functions
7. 17:14Event-driven workflows
8. 20:26Dev and debug environments
9. 21:10Durable Functions types
10. 23:58Client and orchestration
11. 25:23Activity functions and patterns
12. 27:08Demo and resources

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