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This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Nick Greenfield to learn about the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler. The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for orchestrating stateful workflows across Azure compute environments. It powers Durable Functions and Durable Task SDKs with built-in reliability, automatic retries, and persistent state management, which is powerful for long-running, distributed, or event-driven applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Durable Functions overview 05:10 - Introduction to the Durable Task Scheduler 06:41 - Start of…
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Azure Friday
Scott Hanselman · Tech & Science · English
Scott Hanselman sits with engineers who build and run Azure services — weekly conversations on new features, best practices and Microsoft cloud.
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15 Sep 2025
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Bringing Azure Logic Apps to on-prem, private, or public cloud with new Hybrid model
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