By Liam Moat.
Azure Front Door is a scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications. Front Door periodically sends a synthetic HTTP/HTTPS request to all your configured origins to determine health and proximity. Since multiple global locations are each sending health probes to your origins, the volume of traffic and ’egress’ can be quite high. In this post, I will explain why this is important and how you can reduce egress costs using HEAD requests.
By Liam Moat.
In a recent project, we needed to synchronize multiple remote Git repositories. We were maintaining an open-source project on GitHub, and a private downstream mirror on Azure Repos. It was important for the project to have a safe and reliable process that would allow us to keep the two repositories in sync.
By Steph Locke.
This post is an overview of Azure Functions based on the session “Working with data using Azure Functions” that was first delivered at SQLBits with Liam Moat. See the slides for the session at Working with data using Azure Functions.
By Liam Moat.
When you get started with Kubernetes, the first thing you will probably do is create a Deployment using the kubectl command-line interface. When you create an object in Kubernetes, including a Deployment, you must provide the object spec that describes its desired state, as well as some basic information about the object (such as a name). Most often, you provide this information using a YAML file. This post will explore how to use kubectl, and commands that you may already be familiar with, to generate this YAML.
By Liam Moat.
For a long time, I have wanted to document my naming conventions for Azure Resources - this post does just that. A consistent naming convention makes resources easier to find and easier to understand. It can provide structure amongst the chaos of potentially hundreds (if not, thousands) of resources deployed across different regions and environments. A consistent naming standard is the first pillar of the Azure enterprise scaffold and a best practice for cloud applications.
By Liam Moat.
TypeScript 2.9, which was released in May 2018, introduced a new compiler option called resolveJsonModule. This allows you to import .json files and interpret the contents as a well-typed JavaScript Object - which means the compiler will recognise types like string, number and boolean.
By Liam Moat.
Azure Container Registry (ACR) is a fully managed private Docker registry in Azure. In this post, I will show you how to create a continuous integration pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services to build a Docker image and push it to Azure Container Registry.
By Liam Moat.
The .NET Core command-line interface (CLI) is a cross-platform toolchain for developing .NET applications. This post will explore creating a Visual Studio solution using the CLI without needing to rely on Visual Studio.
By Liam Moat.
Firebase is a cloud platform from Google offering a number of great products giving you everything you need to build and grow your web and mobile apps. This post shows you how to take advantage of Hosting, which when combined with Bitbucket Pipelines can give you cost-effective hosting and CI/CD for your static website.
By Liam Moat.
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provides a collection of resource functions that can be used to reference your resource’s configuration and state in an ARM deployment template. In this blog post, I have collated some common use cases for these functions and provided some snippets for your reference.