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Have you heard about Azure Event Grid, but not exactly sure what it is or how you could use it? In this Cloud Drop, we’ll create an event-driven process using Azure Event Grid, Azure Storage Queues and Azure Functions. Get ready to learn all about Event-Driven workflows, Event-Handlers, …

Serverless Integration Azure Event-Driven Architecture

Cloud drops

Published on Sat, May 15, 2021

You may have heard of Event-Driven Architectures before, but haven’t had the chance to get hands-on and build one as yet. That’s exactly what we’ll be working through in this blog post! Before we dive into any practical detail though, let’s go ahead and recap some of the …

Serverless Integration Azure Event-Driven Architecture

Published on Wed, May 12, 2021

Serverless computing is a cloud computing code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages the infrastructure needed to serve requests. In this session, we will explain why and how we should use Azure Functions and PowerShell together, and we will show you how to deploy a PowerShell …

Serverless Integration Event-driven architecture Azure PowerShell

Cloud drops

Published on Thu, May 6, 2021

When I mention the term JAMStack, I’m not pretending that I’m Paddington bear with a stack of Jam sandwiches! If you hadn’t heard, JAMStack is a term that describes applications based on JavaScript, APIs and Markup. That means, we’re referring to files that are content in …

Development Static Content Hugo Cloud Design Patterns Web Development Azure CosmosDB Azure Storage Serverless

Published on Wed, Jan 20, 2021

Recently, I’ve been doing a bit of work with GitHub Actions as well as Terraform for a pet project I’ve been working on. I’ve been building a multi-tenanted inventory app for my Yu-Gi-Oh card collection. In this session, we’ll explore some of the GitHub actions that I have …

DevOps GitHub Serverless Microservices GitHub Actions

Podcast episodes

Published on Fri, Oct 2, 2020

When we think about cloud, we typically think about distributed systems and somehow bringing those different components or systems together, so integrating them. But what are the common practices, or common challenges? You’ve probably heard of serverless, how does that fit into things? Well, …

Serverless Event-Driven Architecture Monitoring Integration

Podcast episodes

Published on Sun, Aug 2, 2020

In my spare time, I work on a pet project called Theatreers. The aim of this is a microservice based platform focused on Theatre / Musical Theatre (bringing a few of my passion areas together).

I’ve recently re-architected the project to align to a serverless technology stack. This includes: …

Azure Architecture Scalability Resilience DevOps ARM Templates Microservices Serverless

Published on Sat, Jul 13, 2019

If you have been keeping up to date with the latest and greatest in Azure Services (yes, I know there are quite a few!), you may have heard of a new service called Azure Functions.

Azure Functions is an event-driven Platform as a Service capability, helping you to execute code upon the occurrence of …

Blogging Serverless Event-driven Architecture

Published on Mon, Sep 12, 2016