Chris Gillum

OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions | Microsoft Community Hub Picture this: Your agent authored with the OpenAI Agent SDK is halfway through analyzing 10,000 customer reviews when it hits a rate limit and dies. All that...

The team just released OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions! Learn more about it in this blog post by Nick Greenfield:
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsona...

25.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Orchestration versioning in Durable Functions - Azure Learn how to use the orchestration versioning feature in Durable Functions for zero-downtime deployments involving breaking changes.

📢 Azure Durable Functions now supports Orchestration Versioning, making it easier to change or rewrite orchestrations—even in-flight—without breaking running instances.

Currently available in .NET, with more language support coming soon.

Learn more here: learn.microsoft.com/azure/azure-...

08.08.2025 07:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DeepSeek FAQ DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

Great article on DeepSeek. Probably the only thing you need to read on this trending topic: stratechery.com/2025/deepsee...

28.01.2025 06:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Azure Durable Functions was designed specifically to solve the problem of orchestrating stateless lambdas (“functions” as we call them). You define the orchestration logic as just another serverless function. No need to bring in a separate orchestration service like Step Functions.

12.01.2025 23:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Building Serverless AI Agents using Durable Functions on Azure Anthropic, one of the premier AI safety and research companies, recently posted an essay on building effective agents, where the authors…

I just published “Building Serverless AI Agents using Durable Functions on Azure” blog.cgillum.tech/building-ser..., something I worked on over the holiday break. It references a recent essay published by the Anthropic research team about the best practices for building effective AI agents.

07.01.2025 04:23 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Really cool case study showing how Toyota is using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB to build multi-agent AI systems to enhance vehicle development productivity!
devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/toy...

20.11.2024 21:19 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Announcing Limited Early Access of the Durable Task Scheduler for Azure Durable Functions | Microsoft Community Hub Durable Task Scheduler - enhanced performance and improved debugging with the new fully managed backend for Durable Functions.

Today we announced a limited early access preview of the Durable Task Scheduler, a fully managed backend state store for Azure Durable Functions! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonA...

19.11.2024 16:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If you're using https://deno.land/, I'd like to know why.

28.04.2023 03:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0

The Durable Task Python SDK is coming along nicely. I'm really starting to appreciate the Python language and am looking forward to debuting it in the Dapr Workflow experience. 🐍 https://github.com/microsoft/durabletask-python

27.04.2023 00:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Red Roses 🌹

26.04.2023 04:55 — 👍 56    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

#Introduction time! I’m Chris, a Partner Software Architect at Microsoft, working on programming models and Serverless/PaaS platforms with an emphasis on workflow tech. I’m also having a blast learning about AI and LLMs.

Outside of work I study 日本語 and am busy raising three tri-racial daughters. ✌🏽

26.04.2023 05:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What are you coding these days?

26.04.2023 04:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TypeError is 🔥

26.04.2023 04:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0