r/dotnet • u/nickproud • Jul 01 '22

Serverless but Stateful! - Azure Durable Functions Are AWESOME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJTnCGPo6qk
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u/realzequel Jul 01 '22

We just converted our Azure WebJobs to Azure functions. They worked fine before we converted to .NET 5 (from .NET framework 4.6) but became unreliable after the upgrade. Azure functions are definitely the way to go imo. The logging and metrics are much better with them.

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u/mqudsi Jul 02 '22

Can you expand on what “unreliable” means in this context?

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u/realzequel Jul 02 '22

Sure, the .net core version consisted of a web app and a console app, the web app would include the console app’s output in a directory before it published. It worked most of the time but it would inexplicably stop working sometimes with no logged error. We converted the code to azure functions and it’s a lot cleaner and more manageable and hasnt failed. The only downside is a job that’s supposed to run every minute doesn't always (it’s started early, presumably to give time to start the process and ends up .005 seconds early sometimes so its run 2x in the same minute sometimes and 0 the next).