Implementing Multiple durable functions to use different subsets of a superset of functions. Scaling?

Question

We have setup a series of [Azure Functions] sub-Functions: {A, B, C, D, E, ...}.
We have clients who use varying subsets of these functions in various orders:

client1 uses {A -> C -> E}
client2 uses {D -> E -> B}

My goal is to setup each client's logic within a durable function
I would like to avoid duplicating code within our environment and ensure that we can update any sub-function once and have that update cascade to all clients

Would the best design here be to setup all components - (Durable Functions, and Functions) within a single app service?
Would it be possible to scale a single clients durable function without scaling other clients?
I expect there to be hundreds of clients, and hundreds of sub-functions. Is this ideal on a single app service?

Thanks!

Answer

Would the best design here be to setup all components - (Durable Functions, and Functions) within a single app service?

While this would be fine for a few customers with less load, I wouldn't recommend this approach. (I believe you mean a single function app here and not app service)

Instead, it would be best to split the sub-functions into separate function apps. You could group them together into smaller groups too if required. These sub-functions would be exposed as Durable Async HTTP APIs.

The client specific functions would leverage the Durable HTTP Client to make calls to these sub-functions based on their scenario.

Would it be possible to scale a single clients durable function without scaling other clients?

If they are all in deployed as a single function app, then no. But the approach that I shared above would for the client functions. The sub-functions would scale based on how often they are called.

I expect there to be hundreds of clients, and hundreds of sub-functions. Is this ideal on a single app service?

This would completely depend on how much load is present and size of this app service. You can surely deploy multiple function apps into a single app service for the above approach to work.

You could also consider the newer Premium Plan which scales similar to the consumption plan but has higher compute options.

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