A new year has started, so it’s time to reflect and think of what we’ll be doing the rest of this new year.
2017 has been a great year for me, not only from a technical point of view, but also personally.
First of all, I have had the chance to be an amazing dad for our son. Being a dad is the best thing one can imagine. Seeing the joy in your child’s eyes whenever you get home and seeing him grow up so quickly is just amazing!
Read more →Using certificates to secure, sign and validate information has become a common practice in the past couple of years. Therefore, it makes sense to use them in combination with Azure Functions as well.
As Azure Functions are hosted on top of an Azure App Service this is quite possible, but you do have to configure something before you can start using certificates.
Adding your certificate to the Function App Let’s just start at the beginning, in case you are wondering on how to add these certificates to your Function App.
Read more →So, one of my previous customers reached out to me a couple of weeks ago. They had a question concerning on how to use dependency injection in their AutoMapper profiles. For this project we were using profiles which were dynamically loaded inside the application using MEF and were using Autofac for dependency injection.
The way you would normally load all of these profiles is by using the AddProfiles method when initializing AutoMapper.
Read more →You might remember me writing a post on how you can set up your site with SSL while using Let’s Encrypt and Azure App Services.
Well, as it goes, the same post applies for Azure Functions. You just have to do some extra work for it, but it’s not very hard.
Simon Pedersen, the author of the Azure Let’s Encrypt site extension, has done some work in explaining the steps on his GitHub wiki page.
Read more →(Almost) No one likes writing code meant to store data to a repository, queues, blobs. Let alone triggering your code when some event occurs in one of those areas. Luckily for us the Azure Functions team has decided to use bindings for this.
By leveraging the power of bindings, you don’t have to write your own logic to store or retrieve data. Azure Functions provides all of this functionality out of the box!
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