In this blog post…

• Introducing Durable Entities
• Reading and Creating State
• Making Room for the Monster: Updating Entities
• Weapons and Loot: Dealing with Lists
• Return on Aggregation
• Summary

The combination of Azure Functions and Durable Functions enable long running workflows and the implementation of multiple patterns that I wrote about in a previous blog post. Although it is possible to associate metadata with workflows, referred to as orchestrations, it is limited in scope and usually used for identification. Tracking more complex data and state still required interaction with a back-end data store or database. With Durable Functions v2, this changes and now data related to state can be encapsulated in Durable Entities.

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