serverless

Since .NET Core was announced, I've really been loving the command line experience for .NET Core. Being able to use dotnet new to start a new application regardless of the OS or what shell/terminal experience is on a machine is the way to happiness. The Azure Functions team has put together some fancy new templates for creating serverless apps now. Getting the new templates installed .NET Core templates are all just NuGet packages and installed using dotnet new -i <package-path>. In this case, the templates are on a private feed, so you need to get them nupkg files from https://functionscdn.azureedge.net/public/cli-feed-v3.json. The latest current version right now is from the feed: "2....

ASP.NET Core 2.1 added some great features for making external API calls easier to manage when there are network failures, or the service itself might be down. Scott Hanselman has a great series of posts where he has updated to take advantage of these features. Announcement on HttpClientFactory and documentation at docs.microsoft.com Download .NET Core 2.1 Using Polly we can set up a retry policy, stating a number of retries to attempt and at what interval. services.AddHttpClient<MyClient>(). AddTransientHttpErrorPolicy(policyBuilder => policyBuilder.CircuitBreakerAsync( handledEventsAllowedBeforeBreaking: 2, durationOfBreak: TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1) )); As I was reading through the docs and making the changes to the ASP.NET Core workshop, it struck me to push this...

One of the responsibilities we have as Cloud Developer Advocates is having an understanding of the struggles of developers using the cloud in their daily tasks. One way to do that is to spend time looking over the latest questions on Stack Overflow with a little project called StackoverAzure. Instead of having yet another browser tab was to use serverless functions to monitor certain tags and send cards to our Teams room with the pertinent info for anyone on our team to quickly see the most recent unanswered questions. Concept Watch Stack Overflow for questions with the following parameters: Have NOT been answered. (no answer accepted) Tagged with azure Every 30 minutes, the process would grab the last fifty questions...