Keith Hodo

Yesterday we covered how to develop and debug and Azure Function using Visual Studio. Just as with most things in the world of software development, there are more than one way to go about it. Today we will cover developing and debugging Azure Functions using Visual Studio Code and Powershell. Technically, we will be using the Azure Command Line Interface (CLI) to test our Functions but let's not be pedantic [Read More]

Admittedly, the Function that we created yesterday doesn't do a whole lot more than respond to an incoming HTTP request with "Hello" and a name. Let's add a little bit of complexity to our demo by creating a new function using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code and the Azure CLI. Prerequisites: Visual Studio 2015 (Any Edition) Azure Subscription (no longer technically optional, however Azure Functions are very inexpensive to operate [Read More]

This past week I started playing around with Azure Functions. They offer an inexpensive way to get started with microservices and serverless architecture in Azure. Essentially, they allow the developer to write small, loosely coupled services using infrastructure that is completely maintained by the cloud service provider. There is no need to worry about scaling of your Functions or OS patching as the cloud service will handle both of these [Read More]

Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions If you want to skip the journey, and my pitfalls, please skip to the section What You Need to Know. As a developer and senior consultant part of my job is to stay up to date on new technologies. Early last year a couple colleagues and I set out to earn our Microsoft Certified Developer (MCSD) in Azure Solutions. There are three exams you need to [Read More]

One of the biggest challenges I have been facing recently is deciding where I am going to store content. For work I have been using Microsoft OneNote fairly extensively. At home my wife and I were using it for a bit as well when we were trying to create to-do lists. But it became a bit cumbersome and we switched over to Google Keep (mostly for those lovely honey-do lists) [Read More]