nts sent from the previous layer (or the input) — is useful for a whole class of problems. And, although we used connected devices to motivate this use case, it&rsquo;s not limited to the IoT domain.</p>
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<p>Stateful Functions provides the building blocks necessary for building complex distributed applications (here the digital twins that support analysis and interactions 