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A collection of blog posts highlighting various uses of Azure Functions

Azure Cloud Resume Challenge Update: Adding Azure API Management

Azure Cloud Resume Challenge Update: Adding Azure API Management

The Azure Cloud Resume Challenge in most cases seeks to update a visitor counter when a visitor lands on the resume holder's page. In my first iteration of the Azure Cloud Resume Challenge I wrote about here, I initially created an architecture that looks like this: As you can see,

Azure Static Web App: Cloud Resume Challenge

Azure Static Web Apps

Azure Static Web App: Cloud Resume Challenge

Azure Static Web Apps is great for hosting fast and high scale static web pages that can be used for landing pages, informational pages, posters, and general content that does not require complex dynamic activity. The following is my slightly overdue implementation of the popular 'Cloud Resume Challenge' (Thank you

Azure Functions Write to Azure SQL Database (Output Binding)

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Azure Functions Write to Azure SQL Database (Output Binding)

Azure SQL Databases support writing from Azure Functions through Output Bindings. We define the table name and a variable pointing to a Function App Setting that has the value of the connection string as part of the SQL output binding. In this post, let's explore how we can write to

Azure Functions SQL Input Binding with Managed Identity Access

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Azure Functions SQL Input Binding with Managed Identity Access

Azure Functions now have the ability to easily bind to a SQL Database for both Azure SQL Database and on premise. Previously, you would have needed to write custom code with a connection client inside the Function code itself to read and write to the database. Not anymore. We will

Azure Functions Monitor Pattern Example

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Azure Functions Monitor Pattern Example

Azure Functions are incredible at being able to complete computations on our behalf. The Monitor Pattern specifically allows an Azure Function to consistently check for the status of a long running process that has a completion time that is irregular or unfixed. With the Monitor pattern, we set a large

Listening to Azure audio blobs on Google Nest Hub

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Listening to Azure audio blobs on Google Nest Hub

This is a follow-on post to Azure Media Services Clips. After creating the Function for serving the podcast clips (or any other audio as blobs) from Azure, it gives rise to the opportunity of requesting the stored podcast audio Urls in Azure, from a device like a Google Nest Hub

Using Azure Video Analyser for Media in Azure Functions

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Using Azure Video Analyser for Media in Azure Functions

First some clarification, 'Azure Video Analyser for Media' should be considered the new name for what used to be called Video Indexer. It is slightly different from 'Azure Video Analyser' which is currently in Preview. With Azure Video Analyser for Media, it's possible to analyse and extract useful insights from

Project Harmony: Azure Functions Fan Out Fan In

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Project Harmony: Azure Functions Fan Out Fan In

The Azure Functions Fan Out Fan In pattern allows Azure Functions to scale and spread a workload across different worker functions that work together in parallel to process a batch of work. The results from each worker function is consolidated into a final result in a separate Function. In this

Using Azure Stream Analytics

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Using Azure Stream Analytics

An example of using Azure Stream Analytics to query Events in Event Hub

Azure Media Services Tuning: Project Condenser Update

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Azure Media Services Tuning: Project Condenser Update

Off the back of Project Condenser earlier, I ended up having a few loose end questions that I thought I should put together here and test and resolve. In the original conception of the cloud encode, the H.264 1080p cloud transform I used was designed to have an output

Utilising Azure Media Encoder to compress UHD Video for better playback compatibility

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Azure Project Condenser

For a long time, I have been a strong believer in always viewing video in the highest possible quality. In the year 2021, to me this means 4k at 60 frames per second and a high bitrate for personal/family videos or 4k at 24 or 30 frames as a

Using Azure API Management for Azure Functions

Using Azure API Management for Azure Functions

When dealing with resources in Azure that can be called when the right credentials are known by a calling client, it can be easy to simply grant direct access to the cloud resource itself. In the case of Azure Functions the common scenario is to give the client/caller/user

Azure Function Key Refresher

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Azure Function Key Refresher

When it comes to using Azure Functions to run serverless computations in the cloud, it can be quite common to have the calling client have direct knowledge of the function key. The Function Key is a unique code that is used as part of fully authorising the calling client to

An Azure Function triggers a Raspberry Pi 3b to capture images

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Azure Project Overhead Part 1

The idea behind the Azure Overhead project is to allow me to essentially see a live view (with images) looking out a window of whether there are available car parking spaces in the shared car parking area at home whenever I am away from home. It's beneficial because it saves