Benefits of Durable Functions

Durable Functions scales as needed and provides a cost-effective means of implementing complex workflows in the cloud. Some benefits of using Durable Functions include:

• They enable you to write event-driven code. A durable function can wait asynchronously for one or more external events and then perform a series of tasks in response to these events.
• You can chain functions together. You can implement common patterns such as fan-out/fan-in, which uses one function to invoke others in parallel, and then accumulate the results.
• You can orchestrate and coordinate functions and specify the order in which functions should execute.
• The state is managed for you. You don't have to write your own code to save state information for a long-running function.