a developer's notebook
During the summer I was fortunate enough to take part in Summer in Greece Festival, a five-day event by Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors in which MVPs, MCTs, and Microsoft Employees will present and deep dive to Microsoft technologies. My talk was about a Durable Functions, an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write stateful functions in a serverless compute environment. Source Code You…
One thing I tend to forget is how powerful azure cli is and how many things can be done way faster through this tool. So, for example, if you want to delete all files in an Azure Storage Account at once, a fast and easy way to do just that is by using the delete-batch command from Azure CLI. Run…
In the Azure portal, if your account contributes to other Azure subscriptions, you are allowed to switch from one to another using a drop-down menu at the top left corner. The problem is that, by default, the name used in the Azure Active Directory is “Default Directory” which seems a little confusing, especially if you have access to multiple directories…
On the 25th of April I had the chance to organize the Global Azure Greece 2020 event, the first virtual one of its kind, and also deliver a session thereat. I was one out of 248 international and 18 Greek speakers that took part in this huge online event. I started organizing the Global Azure bootcamp in Greece in 2016…
During the 23rd AzureHeads meetup, I delivered an introductory presentation concerning Azure API management; I started with the basics (what it is and how can someone get started) and then I showcased a set of features in the Azure Portal, such as: connecting APIs with Azure Functions and import APIs through Swagger developer portal prevention of API usage spikes using…
Let’s assume you have started experimenting with Azure Functions and, for your first app, you have chosen the Azure Portal as your development environment. You have created a new Azure Function by clicking the Plus icon next to your Azure Function name, selected In-portal from the first step of the wizard, and from the second screen you picked the Webhook…
In this post we will talk about all the necessary steps to build and deploy an Angular web application to a static website hosting container in Azure Storage using Azure DevOps. Step 1. Setup a GitHub Repository & commit a sample Angular App To start with, you need to create a new repository in GitHub and push an Angular application…
Azure Storage is a cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios and one key service, among others, is Azure Blobs, a scalable object store for text and binary data. A main use is to upload files to it, either as a long term backup solution, or as a way to serve documents, images and videos directly to a browser. To do so, you…
The information you send on the Internet is passed from computer to computer to get to the destination server. The least you can do to provide privacy, critical security and data integrity for both your websites and your users’ personal information is to have your application secured under an SSL certificate. SSL providers need to set up a trusted infrastructure…
In this post, we will showcase the necessary steps to follow in order to de-associate your azure account from any subscription you have joined in the past and you no longer use. Till recently, in order to do so, you had to ask the admin of the subscription to perform this task, however, now, you can do it all by…
