Serverless

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!

Off the back of my recent post on building an Azure Logic Apps solution for cross-posting on social media I wanted to export what I'd quickly built and make an easily deployable asset in Azure using Bicep. See how you can that in this post.

If you're reading this, then I have successfully implemented my plan to build a content cross-posting service using Azure Logic Apps!

I was recently at an event where I had a discussion with someone who mentioned they'd missed the news about the retirement of a feature in Azure that they were making use of in a solution.

You may be sitting there are wondering why are we doing an Azure Logic App to Power Automate Flow migration? In most cases you'd likely be heading the other direction, but I can give you a few pointers why this move makes sense.

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.

Like any cloud platform, Microsoft Azure is always shipping new features and services regularly. In this post I've pulled out a few highlights from the last few months that I think are worth looking at if you're a developer building serverless solutions.

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.

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.

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.

If you've been a meetup user or admin for the last couple of years then no doubt bots posting dodgy content on your Group's discussion boards...

In 2018 when I joined Microsoft Australia as the Azure Pro Developer Lead in Sydney one of the first things I worked on was building an engagement activity for event attendees at events we were sponsoring.

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.

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...