Stuff I like from this year’s Build conference
.NET Core 3 Preview 4 can be downloaded right now. This new preview brings the Chart control to .NET Core & some WPF improvements. What I like most is the versioning change and the Tiered Compilation. I’m still reading up on this second thing, but it sounds awesome a major reason to upgrade to the latest & greatest! Some more information on TC can be found on a Microsoft blog post dedicated to it: https://devblogs.
Read more →I’ve written about empowering your Teams with Azure Functions a while back, but this isn’t the only way to create value. You can also use Azure Logic Apps.
Logic Apps are a way to express powerful integrations with (several different) systems in a visual workflow based way. It has a lot of similarities with other (Microsoft) workflow systems from the past, so it should strike very familiar to most (Enterprise) developers.
Read more →In today’s world we’re receiving an enormous amount of e-mail.
A lot of the e-mail I’m receiving during the day (and night) is about errors happening in our cloud environment and sometimes someone needs to follow up on this.
At the moment this is a real pain because there’s a lot of false-positives in those e-mails due to the lack of configuration and possibilities in our monitoring software. The amount of e-mails is so painful, most of us have created email rules so these monitoring emails ‘go away’ and we only check them once per day.
Read more →The default Azure Functions runtime comes with quite a lot of bindings and triggers which enable you to create a highly scalable solution within the Azure environment. You can connect to service buses, storage accounts, Event Grid, Cosmos DB, HTTP calls, etc.
However, sometimes this isn’t enough.
That’s why the Azure Functions team has released functionality which enables you to create your own custom bindings. This should make it easy for you to read and write data to any service or location you need to, even if it’s not supported out of the box.
Read more →Happy 2019 all!
Just like every other blogger on the world, I also want to write a small retrospective on 2018 and prospective on 2019.
Let’s start with the retrospective first. As I mentioned last year, we were expecting a daughter somewhere in January of 2018. As it happens, she is born on January 24th and very healthy. Even though this was still early in the year, I knew for a fact this day would be the best one of the entire year.
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