Functions

On Wednesday, March 8, I spoke at the Sydney Serverless Meetup on how you can quickly build an Azure Function Extension and in what situations you should consider doing so. Here I run through the demo and the code!

I recently wrote a post on sending Azure retirement announcements via email using the Azure Communication Services Email capabilities. As this feature is in preview there are some SDK gaps, including for Azure Functions. In this post I look at how you can build an extension to fill a gap like this one!

In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

In this final part of this series of posts covering how to build your own air quality alerting system I will build out the alerting subsystem.

Anyone who was living in Australia during the 2019/2020 summer can't help but remember the massive bushfires we had, and the impact they had on air quality.

I thought I would find the most intricate AWS example serverless app and use it as the basis for the demo migration to Azure to go along with this blog.

I set out to build a simple automated XBox Series X stock checker that will push an alert to me when stock shows up so that I can action it immediately regardless of where I am.

Voice assistants have become all the rage, and they provide a great way to access and consume information. A fairly common scenario, and one that most assistants ship with, is reading the latest news headlines.

Recently I reflected on the amount of time it takes for me to prepare slides for a monthly meetup, and decided this probably wasn't a great use of my time which makes it the perfect candidate to automate!

any developers are interested in learning how to build and run software on cloud platforms, but are wary of the potential for hidden costs and bill shock.

For an upcoming demo I developed a small Azure Function written in Python, whose job it is to create a thumbnail image of a JPEG file.

The first ever Serverless Days ANZ event run on Friday September 4 and, boy, what a success it was! In this post I'll go into the online event in a bit more detail and look at some of the stats along with my highlights.

In this post I am going to run through how Azure can provide all you need if you wanted to build an "event-in-a-box" service that you can use to host online events. Think of this post as your event platform recipe card!

Over the last few years I've spent a lot of time focused on the serverless space having built one of the first Azure Functions backends in Australia that runs a consumer mobile app you might have used.

This fortnight's episode of Red Dog for Dev will be the last one for 2019 and is coming in a bit hot as I've got a bunch of stuff on, but wanted to get something up for you all!

This fortnight's episode covers announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite in Orlando that cover Azure API Management, Azure App Service and Azure Container Registry.

Starting today I'm going to be trying something new. Given the fast pace of change with the Azure platform it's often hard to keep up with what's new or interesting.

For this blog I'm going show you how you can use FFMPEG from an Azure Functino to create a thumbnail image from a video file.

You now have the choice to package Python Azure Functions using a pre-built template in Azure DevOps.

I had great fun yesterday presenting at the Sydney Serverless Meetup on the currently in-preview support for Java on Azure Functions.

Ihis post covers an approach you can use to deploy compiled C# Functions using the tooling available in Visual Studio 2017...

I'm really excited about this opportunity to share the power of Azure with the developer and IT Pro community in France.

Let's take a look back on the journey I've been on with Functions for the past 12 months

In this blog I am continuing with my series covering useful scenarios for using Azure Functions - this time looking at payments processing.

Prior to Azure Functions announcing their General Availability (GA) I had previously used SendGrid as an output binding in order to send email messages.

Azure Functions is one of those services in Azure that is seeing a massive amount of uptake...