In order to start working with Azure Functions you need to create a Function App in your Azure subscription. It is a container that groups your functions into a logical unit. I am going to add an .NET Azure Function that will be triggered by HTTP-trigger. It will receive a Guid Id of my Azure …
“Azure Functions is a serverless application platform. It allows developers to host business logic that can be executed without provisioning infrastructure.” Benefits Write your business logic in the language of your choice Get automatic scaling You will be charged only for the running time of the function Great for stateless logic (but if state is …
This is a very high level overview of what Service Fabric Mesh is and how it is different from Service Fabric and Kubernetes. Azure Service Fabric is a highly-scalable distributed systems platform but in production requires a dedicated team to maintain it, which is a big overhead in smaller companies. Service Fabric Mesh takes care …
Azure Key Vault is used to store database connections string, API keys etc. Apart from being a secure central place for storing secrets it gives you greater control of key management. We all know that it is good practice to rotate keys, but if you have multiple applications all holding connection string to the same …
Having come from a PowerShell background and being spoiled with its simplicity, I realised there are a few things I take for granted which are not as simple in Python. One of these is to easily see what Methods and Properties are available on an object. PowerShell Get-Member PowerShell has an inbuilt cmdlet for exactly …
I have recently been playing around with Python and set my self the typical task that most devs get asked during interviews. “Here is s list of string, I want you to find me all the palindromes that are greater than length n”. Sound familiar? Well, with Python being very flexible and simple this tasked …
By default the firewall on Server 2019 and Server 2016 blocks ICMP packets. I had to enable this on a VM and I do not like clicking the “Windows Firewall With Advanced Security” GUI. As such, PowerShell is the answer. The below code can be used to allow ICMP In and Out on Server 2019 …
I am a developer, this is what I do and this is what I like doing. I get an enourmous satisfaction from solving problems, especially those non-trivial ones that make you want to throw your laptop out of the window. I am a manager too. I have a team and together we are trying to …
I must say Git command line does not come naturally to me so I am doing most of it through the UI in Visual Studio. But today I gave up clicking buttons and resorted to Git Bash. I needed to merge my dev branch into the test branch, but only up to a certain commit …
Durable Functions are extentions to Azure Functions that let you write functions orchestration in code. Moving into serverless architecture means that you will have a lot of moving parts that have to talk to each other. Azure Durable functions allow to create a workflow in code by executing functions in sequence or in parallel. Let’s …
Overview I recently had the need to secure an Azure Web App using a SSL certificate but wanted to do this in the cheapest way possible, i.e, free. This is possible using Let’s Encrypt, the free, automated and open certificate authority. This post will demonstrate how I made use of this on my Web App …