Python

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!

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.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on GitHub, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

A short update from me on a couple of speaking slots I'm doing in April 2019 that might be of interest if you're in Sydney.

For this session I used App Service's inbuilt CD offering, Kudu, which can use webhook triggers on Github, Git and Bitbucket repositories...

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

I've been working a lot with Python over the last few months and one piece of work I've spent quite a lot of time on is interfacing Python solutions with Cosmos DB.