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Announcing Limited Early Access of the Durable Task Scheduler for Azure Durable Functions

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Nov 19, 2024

The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for Azure Durable Functions that enhances performance, reliability, and ease of monitoring of stateful orchestrations.

Today, we are excited to introduce an advancement in the durable execution space – the Durable Task Scheduler for Azure Durable Functions.   Sign up be considered for the limited early access p...
Updated Nov 18, 2024
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ArchitectBond
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Nov 26, 2024

What if I want to do 20,000 or 200,000 orchestrations per second. Is it a matter of scaling workers / instances. Right now, we use Service Fabric, which has been unofficially cancelled, and we're considering shifting the workload to durable entities / functions. Will massive scalability be an option, or should we be looking at a different approach?

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x0n
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May 15, 2025

I would consider investigating Microsoft Orleans (virtual actor framework) which has some interesting development happening about now for durable work flows.