Introduction This article describes how to build a custom URL shortener service using Azure’s serverless platform with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB. I had this idea after I recently read Jussi Roine’s article, where he built a URL shortener service (such as bit.ly) using a serverless Azure approach, an approach he led with Azure Logic Apps and a custom…
This week, I had the honor of speaking on the Developer Training Day track at the TLV Cloud Week 2019. Most of the day was around CNCF projects on Azure, with most notably the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). However, my session took on a different approach which I believe the crowd reacted to well –…
TechBash 2017 Last week I had the honor to present two sessions at TechBash 2017. I would like to thank the organizers for having me over, and thank the audience for attending my sessions. Unfortunately, the sessions were not recorded, but you can find the slide decks and links to code samples below. Session 1…
Internet of Things (IoT) The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve. Last year Alon Fliess wrote an introduction article about the subject and showed how you can use the Azure foundation to build a complete IoT system. In that article, Alon defined an IoT system in the following way – A large IoT system includes one…
Unfamiliar Territories Recently I had to quickly understand and take over a customer’s .NET code base. This code base has a lot of history, and as such I was sure that time has taken its toll on it. My goal was to quickly understand the overall quality of the code as well as map areas…
שבוע שעבר נערך כנס מפתחי התוכנה השנתי הגדול של מיקרוסופט – Microsoft Build. במהלך הכנס הוכרזו והוצגו מספר רב של חידושים עבור הפלטפורמות הטכנולוגיות השונות של מיקרוסופט אשר את עיקריהן אסקור במאמר זה.
Azure Mobile Services Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a type of service also commonly known as a Backend-as-a-Service. ASP.NET SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a library for ASP.NET developers that simplifies the process…
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a one day workshop at Microsoft Israel on Azure Mobile Services. For those of you who don’t know, Azure Mobile Services is an Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for easily authoring a mobile application back-end, complete with support for user authentication, push notifications and more. It is a…
Thank You! First of all, I’d like to say a big thank you to all those who attended yesterday’s meeting of the Israeli Azure Developer Community. Feedbacks from those who attended are great so far and I sure do hope to see you on next month’s meeting. Azure App Service Resources If you saw my presentation…
Last week I attended Microsoft’s Build conference at San-Francisco along with my colleagues. Build is Microsoft’s prime developer conference, and as such it is packed with technical content relating to software development on top of Microsoft’s various platforms – from Band, to Xbox, to PC to Azure. In this post I’ll try to summarize my key…
I’d like to thank all those who attended last week’s sessions at CodeValue’s open-day “From ALM to DevOps”. I had a good time delivering my session, and I hope you enjoyed it and all other sessions as well. The slide deck from my session is available to view online from SlideShare. [slideshare id=30189324&doc=devopsinthecloud-140119151911-phpapp01&w=790] If you…
The await keyword is a new keyword in C# 5.0 which, in tandem with async keyword, allows us to easily author methods which execute asynchronously in regards to the calling code. In previous posts I’ve shown certain issues you should look out for when using these keyword. In this post we’ll look at another issue…