Architecting Highly Available Bot Applications for Microsoft Teams
By Ahmed Patel•
Introduction
Microsoft Teams integrations often become business-critical. Designing Teams bots that survive cloud node failures requires stateless architecture.
Scaling the Bot Framework
- State Out of Memory: The default bot state storage is in-memory. We must swap this for external Redis or Cosmos DB storage.
- Load Balancing: Utilizing ingress controllers to distribute Teams webhook requests.
- Health Probes: Configuring Kubernetes readiness and liveness checks to cycle failing containers.
Summary
By decoupling compute from state, we ensure that a failure in one region doesn’t interrupt ongoing voice or text integrations.
Tags
AzureMicrosoft TeamsKubernetesSRE