Development Practices Why DurableTaskClient is Critical for Long-Running Azure Functions I'll outline why DurableTaskClient and Durable Functions are essential tools when building long-running workflows in Azure Functions.
Azure Looking for a Quick, Cheap Cron Job on Azure? Check Out Container App Jobs. Are you looking for a quick cron job on Azure? If your recurring task can be expressed as a one-liner, here's an easy way to run it in Azure.
Azure Use These Credentials to Deploy from GitHub Actions to Azure Error handling to pass credentials for Azure/functions-action@v1. This action allows you to deploy an Azure Function App from GitHub Actions.
Platforms & Languages Generate an Azure Storage Account SAS Generating a Storage Account SAS doesn't have to be complicated. This simple TypeScript implementation will get you started.
Platforms & Languages A Survey of Cloud AI and Machine Learning Platforms Here's an overview of three Generative AI and Machine Learning Platforms: Azure, Databricks, and Amazon Bedrock.
.NET / WPF How to Build Visual Studio Installer Projects in Azure Pipelines Testing a legacy app with Azure Pipelines can be difficult. Here are some tips for creating a CI pipeline for your own Visual Studio Installer Project.
Web Apps Understanding and Setting Up the Azure Resources to Deploy a Containerized Web App Here, I'll provide a high-level explanation of the Azure resources our project team created in order to deploy a containerized web application.
TypeScript How to Upload PDF Files to Azure Blob Storage Using Node.js On a recent software project, we discussed various methods to handle document uploading and landed on leveraging Microsoft Azure Storage and Node SDK.
Developer Tools Setting up Microsoft Graph API in Node In getting the authentication setup for Microsoft Azure in Node, we can take advantage of the Graph API in the background of any app.
Project & Team Management Keeping Distributed Teams Unblocked with Azure Boards’s “Remaining Work” Field The Remaining Work field in Azure Boards helped our scrum master keep our distributed development team from becoming blocked.
Web Apps Setting Up an Azure Functions Dependency Injection Context for Request Tests How to configure an Azure Functions dependency injection context for request testing in xUnit, including logging and settings.
DevOps & System Admin. Moving Task Groups to YAML Builds in Azure DevOps Task groups in Azure DevOps Pipelines can be difficult to move to YAML builds. Here's my guide for making the transition smoothly.
