The docs are a little lite on examples of Azure Functions using Azure Storage Blobs, so I took a couple of hours and created a few more examples that I will share in this article. The code can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/MJR061. You will first want to create the resources in Azure, follow the instructions…
With all that is going on with COVID-19 and the impact that it is having on retailers, I took a couple of days and wrote a curb-side app that would allow customers to notify a retailer, or any vendor for that matter, that they had arrived to pick-up their order. Please note, this is an…
In this article I want to revisit securing an Azure Function so that it cannot be called directly, but can be called by Azure API Management. To do this, I am going to leverage Managed Identities and make use of this in my API Management policy. I know I could do this with IP white…
Normally I use, and recommend, Logic Apps for orchestration, but I recently had an ask for sample code of a Durable Function that demonstrated error handling and retry logic. The code for this article can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/MJR047. Using the Azure Storage Emulator I created two queues, one called sayhello and another called sayhello-poison,…
In this series of articles we will access an Azure SQL database using an access token provided by Azure AD. Why would we even want to do this? Doing it this way means we DO NOT have to provide a User Id and Password in our connection string. In Part 1 we will create the…
