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Versioning with Azure PaaS and Serverless
Working with multiple teams on a big microservices architecture can be a real struggle. What I often see is that teams are responsible for their set of microservices and struggle to isolate their services. Resulting in…
Migrating Azure Table Storage to SQL with Azure Logic Apps
I’ve created an App that uses Azure Table Storage as a backing store. At first this looked like the right decision but after a while I figured that I should migrate to a relational database. But in the mean while the…
Building a Web Scraper in Azure
Building a web scraper is pretty hard. Doing it in Azure is harder. Utilizing Serverless and PaaS services is challenging. I don’t want to pay for a VM and just deploy the scraper on it because I need the solution to be…
Using Wordpress / Woocommerce in Serverless Azure
Sometimes Wordpress isn’t that bad. When for instance you’re building a SEO optimized landing page for a custom made tool and you don’t want to develop everything your self. Secondly, Wordpress has thousands of plugins…
Azure Functions Http Response caching
As you might know its a best practice to keep your Azure Functions stateless . That means that also in memory caching should not be done inside your functions. Especially when you’re using a consumption plan. Your cache…
Azure API Management ARM Cheat sheet
Deploying an API Management instance via ARM is complicated. I’ve created a cheat sheet to help you out. Alot is copied from a complete template originating from Github . ARM ARM might be the way to deploy a pre-setup…
Azure API Management overview
Azure API Management is a jungle of configurations, options and possibilities. The documentation is not always that clear and sometimes its hard to see what your options are and which suit your solution best. In this…
Secrets in Azure DevOps the bad parts
Storing secrets inside your build and release pipeline variables is a bad practise and Microsoft advises not to use it, but use KeyVault instead. However fact is, is that its also very convenient and easy to use, so…
Building Serverless API's in Azure
Serverless is a hot topic in Cloud Development. Serverless cloud computing is all about scalability, performance, minimizing cost and maximizing business value by eliminating complexity. Its a true game changer but is…
Azure AD Managed Service Identity
What is Azure AD Managed Service Identity (MSI) Azure AD MSI is an Azure feature, which allows Identity managed access to Azure resources. This improves security, by reducing the need for applications, to have…