Durable Azure Functions

Question

I do have a C# based console app, which runs for 3 to 4 hours continuously executing data into batches. Would durable function be best for executing such a long-running process and would be cost-efficient?

Answer 1

@SHASHANK MEHTA ,

Thanks for reaching out to Q&A.

Azure webjobs would suit your requirement more than durable functions. You can run your console application in Azure webjobs directly however in the case of durable functions, you will have to rewrite your code. Webjobs can be used to run continuous/schedule based jobs in the background. As webjobs can be run on existing App service as well, it would be cost efficient.

Azure Webjobs : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/webjobs-create
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/background-jobs#azure-web-apps-and-webjobs

If you would like to explore the durable functions, please let me know the trigger details and the level of concurrency you would like to achieve, I will provide some details about it.

I hope this helps!

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