Playing with serverless and state: Let's create a serverless chatbot!

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Demonstrates that Azure Durable Functions’ Entity functions actually store per-entity JSON state so a serverless app can keep conversation context; uses Azure Functions + Durable Entities backed by table/blob/queue storage, the telegram.bot client and a custom convo library to implement a Telegram menu, an Echo command and a per-chat counter; live codes a working deployment (falls back to a prebuilt Plan B) and shows creation, signaling, serialization and retrieval of session state with Azure Durable Functions Entity functions and Telegram bot with per-chat state.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:38Storing state between messages
3. 4:49Durable Functions - State
4. 5:24Entity Functions
5. 7:08Accessing Entities

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