Building a serverless Discord bot in PowerShell and...

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Builds a serverless Discord bot using PowerShell 7.2+ and Azure Functions and ships code in a public repo for discord.net.powershell. Uses slash command deferral with 3 seconds to ack and a 15 minute followup token, implements an HTTP post chain instead of queues or durable functions to avoid high storage costs, and adds a 5 minute monitor to avoid frostbite. Claims monthly cost around $3/month. Demos run but cold starts sometimes cause timing failures.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:15Overview
3. 7:28Prerequisites
4. 7:47Demo Environment
5. 10:29Function Chaining
6. 11:55Durable Functions
7. 24:05Creating a Discord Bot
8. 33:13Dealing with frostbite
9. 36:31Command Types
10. 42:09Building the bot yourself

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