ProgNet 2019 – DevOps workshop deck
Please find the promised presentation from ProgNet 2019 workshop about DevOps:
Microsoft MVP for 2019 – 2020
I wanted to share with you with very positive information that I received just a few moments ago. I have been awarded Microsoft MVP title in Azure category. As always, it is adding positive energy that is driving me to knowledge share and other activities.
Logging and monitoring cost of CosmosDB queries by using Application Insights
Each time when creating an application that is using document databases like CosmosDB we are facing a challenge of estimation of its costs and later optimisation. Both tasks are not so easy to do. To solve the first one we can use cost calculator. We just need to provide main characteristics of our solution (like a number of documents, information about actions per seconds, …) and also we need to provide sample documents that will be stored in our database. After doing that we will be able to read the estimated cost of our solution: […]
Sending SMSes from Azure Functions v2 – Twilio
Please find the brief manual to sending SMSed by Twilio service in Azure Functions v2. The purpose of it is similar to text related to SendGrid case. In case of Twilio, you need to install Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Twilio NuGet package. After doing it, you should use the following code: using Twilio.Rest.Api.V2010.Account; using Twilio.Types; public static class SendNotificationSMS { [FunctionName("SendNotificationSMS")] public static void Run( [TwilioSms( From = "Assigned by Twilio number", Body = "...")] out CreateMessageOptions messageOptions) { messageOptions = new CreateMessageOptions( new PhoneNumber("Phone number to which you would like to send message")); } } Together with that, you should also add to [...]
Sending emails from Azure Functions v2 – SendGrid
Some time ago I described how you could integrate SendGrid service with Azure Functions (article: Sending emails from Azure Functions v2 – SendGrid link). Mentioned article is still valid in the scope of SendGrid service configuration. I need to add a part related to integration with Azure Functions v2. This version is generally available from the last few months and it introduced some architectural changes. In the previous version of functions (v1), the code that has been responsible for integration with different services providers was part of the runtime. Each time when Microsoft wanted to change something related to integration he needed [...]
How to enable/disable Azure Function programmatically
Today I would like to write about something different. I am curious… Have you ever thought about enabling/disabling Azure Function by code? In such scenario, we would be able to decide about the state of the function directly from our application. I believe that you can find a lot of useful scenarios for such behaviour. I will provide two of them. The first one. We have some resource that is not so fast and we would like to reduce the frequency of using it during the day. In such scenario, we can use Azure Storage Queue as a buffer for [...]
I would like to invite you to September workshops
We still have few months to September but I would like to invite you to my workshops that will take place in that month. First of them - CosmosDB – Database for Serverless Era – is part of ProgNET London 2018. I will be conducting 3,5 hours workshop during the second day of the conference (13th September 2018). You will learn how to use CosmosDb in your Serverless solutions. I will start with a short introduction of this service, and will present most essential features of CosmosBD. Then you will be able to learn how you can store and query [...]
Serverless Azure. WROC# online & workshops
Today at 17:00 you will be able to attend an online session about Serverless and Azure Functions. I will cover main concepts related to those elements. It will be available on WROC# Online channel.