Cookiecutter API for Serverless REST APIs: Build Scalable Backends

Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you looking for a powerful, standardised way to create scalable REST APIs? The Cookiecutter API provides a ready-to-use template for building robust APIs. This guide will introduce the Cookiecutter API, explore its benefits for serverless architectures across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and discuss the controller-service pattern to enhance maintainability. What Is Cookiecutter API…

Azure 101: What is Cloud Computing?

Reading Time: 2 minutesHead in the clouds Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, commonly referred to as “the cloud.” These services include servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence. The benefits of cloud computing include increased speed of innovation, flexible resource allocation, and economies of scale. Cloud computing allows businesses to pay…

Azure 101: A Guide

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Azure 101 guide aims to help guide those new to cloud and provide a platform to help experience what it is and what is has to offer. This guide will take a look at Microsoft Azure through a developer’s lens, but also explore and learn ways to manage your own Azure cloud environment. Every…

Some Lessons Learned with Azure Hybrid Connections

Reading Time: 3 minutesHybrid Connections you say? Here’s some background… Recently I’ve been working with a client to deploy an Azure Hybrid Connection to create a tunnel between an Azure Function App and some on-premises devices. I would like to discuss some lessons from this experience to hopefully help anyone who gets stuck.  A little bit about Hybrid…

Azure Function App: How to Build a Weather API

Reading Time: 6 minutesOverview In my previous Function App article (How to Build a REST API with Azure Function Apps) I talked about how Microsoft provides sample code for building a Azure Function HTTP Trigger when you create a Function App in Visual Studio Code. With the provided code you can then go ahead and modify it to…

Unpacking and Demystifying Azure Function Apps: An Overview

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat is an Azure Function? Azure Function Apps are Azure cloud-based serverless event-driven applications. Generally Azure Functions are stateless, meaning that each trigger or run of the Function App has no context or reference to previous runs. This isn’t a hard rule however, as there is an extension for something called Durable Functions, which allow…

How to Build a REST API with Azure Function Apps

Reading Time: 7 minutesLets talk cloud One of the beautiful things about the cloud, particularly Azure in this case, is that you can deploy app environments in a matter of minutes!! And better yet you don’t have to maintain physical hardware systems. So say “auf wiedersehen” to managing drive failures and say “hello there” to secure and reliable…

Azure AD Role-Based Access Control Automation Tool

Reading Time: 4 minutesBackground This is an old piece of code I built well over 8-months ago. I had recently started at Softlanding at the time and was tasked to build an Azure AD RBAC automation tool. I thought it would be a good first blog article since I had already written it. GitHub link. Purpose The purpose…