Introducing Azure Functions for serverless .NET

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Durable Functions is an open‑source Azure Functions extension that runs stateful, long‑running .NET or Node.js orchestrations using checkpointing and replay to persist state and replay deterministic code. The demo builds a flight‑ingestion pipeline that reads Avro streams into Azure Storage, kicks activity functions for parallel video rendering and uses WebSockets to push updates to a SPA, showing fan‑out/fan‑in and human‑interaction patterns. Shows timers, cancellation and exception handling, explains constraints (no non‑deterministic calls) and hosting/scale tradeoffs.

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1. 0:00Welcome and introduction
2. 1:04What are Azure Functions
3. 2:27Benefits of serverless computing
4. 4:16Event-driven architecture
5. 5:19Triggers and bindings explained
6. 6:00Open-source framework details
7. 7:04Stateless vs stateful functions
8. 9:13Supported languages and tools
9. 10:16Function orchestration demo
10. 13:33Error handling and retries
11. 15:18Local development setup
12. 16:51Debugging functions
13. 18:19Security considerations
14. 19:31Static websites hosting
15. 21:16Responsive web apps demo
16. 23:02Framework deep dive
17. 24:27WebSocket integration demo
18. 26:16Handling race conditions
19. 27:42Infinite loop management
20. 28:47Real-time flight monitoring demo
21. 31:00Big data processing
22. 32:05Task groups and lifecycle
23. 33:10Container hosting options
24. 34:19Code walkthrough demo
25. 36:15Parallel processing
26. 37:19Scaling and hosting plans
27. 38:42Q&A and closing

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