According to Microsoft, Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage, and deploy applications on a massive, global network using various tools and frameworks.
From DevOps to business analytics to the Internet of Things, Azure is designed to have users up and running quickly with a scalable, cost-effective solution that works with your existing investments.
This cloud computing service is a big part of Microsoft’s business, and it competes with similar services from Amazon and Google.
Therefore, our Azure Category is full of handy tips, tricks and advise. Check out some of the Step by Step blogs or learn with our eBooks, How To videos and Webinars.
I’ve had a few people ask me recently about the difference between two resources that are both used for Azure Backup, namely Recovery Services Vault and the newer Backup Vault. Both of these are used by Azure Backup and both can be used to backup your virtual machine data as well as data from some other Azure services… READ MORE
Selecting a partition key for your Cosmos DB is one of the most important choices you need to make for your Cosmos DB project. You really need to take your time and have a plan for your project. Where is this application will be in 1 year? 5 years? How much data are you planning… READ MORE
The new Azure Functions SDK for Isolated Worker (process) has been introduced around .NET 5. While it’s still in flux despite being GA-ed, it’s gaining more and more popularity. And yet, there are still some sharp edges you should be careful with and validate that everything you’re using with the older SDK, In-Process, is offered… READ MORE
Azure Functions can be defined as the cloud services that are available on the Azure portal providing updated infrastructure and resources that are needed for running the applications. It is used to build web APIs, respond to database changes, process IoT streams, manage message queues, and more. In this article, we will explore how to… READ MORE
The problem that I faced was that I wanted to pass a JSON to the application deployment task in the deployment task, I used the YAML deployment template. I stored the JSON variables as part of the pipelines folder. Issues faced The relative path to the JSON file does not work to be passed to… READ MORE
The intention of this post is to create Azure Container Apps deployment and to explain how it differentiates to Azure Container Instances for this specific context 1. Introduction In this post, I’d like to show, how to create a deployment of an Azure Container App – using a customized Container Image, which is managed by an Azure Container Registry. To figure… READ MORE
Visual Studio team added Azure Cosmos DB Emulator into Connected Services in the Visual Studi version 17.2. This makes life much easier for Cosmos DB developers. In this post, I will share how to configure Cosmos DB Emulator for a project in Visual Studio 2022. You can reach Connected Services from the Project menu or… READ MORE
Recently I decided to take a deep dive into the world of .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid to see how it compared to the traditional Xamarin.Forms development that I am so used to. The process for the initial setup was fantastic, and I found the power that was at my fingertips to be quite impressive. However, I was… READ MORE
In this post, let’s have a look at how to send user Notifications using Azure Functions SignalR Service output binding. I already have an Azure SignalR Service and Azure Function setup. My client app is an Angular application. In my Azure Function, I have the Negotiate function as follows. public static class NegotiateFunction { [FunctionName(FunctionNames.Negotiate)] public static SignalRConnectionInfo Run( [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, “get”, “post”, Route = null)] HttpRequest request, [SignalRConnectionInfo( HubName = “%SignalR_HubName%”, UserId = “{headers.x-application-user-id}”, ConnectionStringSetting = “SignalR_ConnectionString”)] SignalRConnectionInfo connectionInfo)… READ MORE
In this post we’ll walk through the steps you can take to give a Service Principal a role with “Least Privilege” in Azure. After reading this article you will have a very practical method that you can use over and over again. You will be able to create roles for your Service Principals that will… READ MORE
