Partner Software Architect at Microsoft. Creator of Azure Durable Functions, Easy Auth, and Dapr Workflow. 日本語もOKです。
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We're also proud of the fact that this is the fastest backend option available for Durable Functions. It uses a custom data stack optimized for durable task workloads and was inspired by the "Netherite" storage technology, which we debuted in 2022. microsoft.com/en-us/research…
The dashboard is one of the most important features of this release, giving insights into the state of all your orchestrations and allowing you to drill into the details. A managed backend is what finally made this possible at scale. It can run locally via the emulator too!
tl;dr - the durable task scheduler is a fully managed backend for Azure Durable Functions. No need to bring your own storage, we'll manage it for you!
Some key features include a web-based management dashboard, identity-based authentication, Azure RBAC authorization model, and an emulator for offline, local development.
Link to the GitHub repo, which allows you to deploy to Codespaces or directly to Azure using azd: github.com/Azure-Samples/ind…
I just found this really cool example showing how to build a RAG pipeline using Azure Durable Functions: "Indexadillo"
Great article on DeepSeek. Probably the only thing you’ll need to read on this trending topic: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee…
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A great article on the Serverless AI Agent pattern using Durable Functions. When we build AI Agents for the real world, we need to consider availability and scalability, but Durable Functions can solve most of these issues. In my opinion, Workflow is used more often than autonomous AI Agents.
I just published Building Serverless AI Agents using Durable Functions on Azure link.medium.com/Kq7FZmLqWPb, something I worked on over the holiday break. It references a recent essay published by the Anthropic research team about the best practices for building effective AI agents.
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This is excellent, and very similar to our take on agent development. We’ve even been calling them Durable Agents, and will leverage the Durable Orchestration for execution.
No need to reinvent the wheel for this part, and just use what exists and plug together the agent tools for the heavy lifting.
I just published Building Serverless AI Agents using Durable Functions on Azure link.medium.com/Kq7FZmLqWPb, something I worked on over the holiday break. It references a recent essay published by the Anthropic research team about the best practices for building effective AI agents.
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I’ve tried (what feels like) every approach under the sun and this is what I’ve settled on whenever I have the choice to.
In my view ORMs make the trivial stuff easier at the cost of making complex stuff more difficult.
And that’s not a trade off I want to make.
Chris Gillum retweeted
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
hez2010.github.io/async-runt…
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📌@AzureFunctions released a lot of new features at #MSIgnite: aka.ms/azfunc-ignite2024. Highlights -
💪Flex Consumption Plan, .NET 9 support GA
🧠 Functions OpenAI extension public preview
🚀 Durable Task Scheduler for Durable Func early access preview (aka.ms/dts-ignite-signup)
Here is their Ignite session, for those at or following the conference: ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/s…
I love this. Mars, Inc. using Azure Durable Functions and the Azure AI Models-as-a-Service to do implement their modern pet dental care solution.
customers.microsoft.com/en-u…
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Overwhelmed by all the news coming from Microsoft Ignite? Head over to our announcements blog post for all the Azure Functions news, like Flex Consumption general availability, support for .NET 9, and more! techcommunity.microsoft.com/…
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This is a very cool pattern and a nice fit for Durable Functions orchestration and state management
Really cool case study showing how Toyota is using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB to build multi-agent AI systems to enhance vehicle development productivity!
devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmo…
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We compared AutoGen in this project and decided that Durable Functions is very well suited for multi-agent applications where control is strong.
Really cool case study showing how Toyota is using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB to build multi-agent AI systems to enhance vehicle development productivity!
devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmo…
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Super excited about the early access preview of Durable Task Scheduler! It's a fully managed backend for Durable Functions and addresses key feedback we've gotten from customers over the years 🙌🙌
Today we announced a limited early access preview of the Durable Task Scheduler, a fully managed backend state store for Azure Durable Functions! techcommunity.microsoft.com/…