Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. Here’s a few thoughts I’ve compiled for debugging Durable Functions orchestrations. [Read More]

Azure Functions is a serverless hosting offering available in Microsoft Azure. While authoring code you may find a need to run code only during local development. [Read More]

Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. There’s an orchestration pattern named Fan out/fan in that can be helpful for contacting a number of external services and waiting for their replies. When one or more of these services throws an... [Read More]

Durable Functions is an extension for Azure Functions to help write stateful services in a stateless environment. It can return helpful information, including a status uri, but this contains a secret key by default! Be careful not to expose this to untrusted parties. [Read More]

While working with HTTP calls that return a Stream via HttpClient’s var response = await SendAsync(request, HttpCompletionOption.ResponseHeadersRead); -> var stream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync(); method for efficient handling of streamed data Brian Dunnington identified the response should be disposed and pointed me to https://www.stevejgordon.co.uk/using-httpcompletionoption-responseheadersread-to-improve-httpclient-performance-dotnet. [Read More]