azure functions series

Raise your hand if you have ever implemented a trigger in some database technology ✋. What did you think of that experience? Did you hit a wall with the ability that database triggers offer? What if you wanted to signal another system that data was…

Today's modern applications are interacting with a larger variety of data stores than they have ever had to in the past. This is not to say that interacting with file storage is anything new, however, the options for storing files are ever-increasing…

In taking a deeper dive into the world of Azure Functions, I noted that there is language support beyond .NET technologies. One of those supported languages, JavaScript! JavaScript does not particularly excite me, but I am interested in the ability…

With the scale and interaction of applications, event-driven architectures have proven why they are popular time and time again. Azure has several solutions for various event-driven architectures, the focus of this post is Azure Service Bus. So let's…

First a quick plug, this is just one post in a series of posts on Azure Functions. Check out the first post here. then, follow that one through all the content! If you have any amount of software development experience, there is likely a time where…

If you are just starting with an Azure Functions API implementation, first take a look at the first post to get caught up. In this post, we will take a look at a more traditional example of a web API implementation. A couple of things you will notice…

Implementing an Azure Function is the theme here, specifically creating a highly elastic web API quickly. But, what does highly elastic really mean? Initially, when this API is deployed to production there will be 0 users of it. Not so great, but…

As a budding software engineer, I had always heard Azure around the office. But, I didn't quite understand what the offering was. Perhaps I didn't even know that a product was offered and it was just jargon people used to sound intelligent. I finally…