Azure Functions
Posts and articles about Azure Functions. Development, operations, and everything in between.
Discover issues with Azure Functions and App Service using Application Insights Paid Members Public
In recent years, I have built and operated distributed cloud systems. With these systems comes various challenges. A key thing I've learned is to keep a close eye on metrics and insights, to learn how our applications are behaving at scale. This post will be about how to
Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions Paid Members Public
The years fly by, and we continue to evolve how we design and architect our systems. As we learn more, and technology evolves, so does our processes and design considerations. In this post I want to make notes of a few best practices I've adopted and keep at
Re-use service instances by Implementing Dependency Injection in Azure Functions Paid Members Public
Imagine you have a Function App that has multiple Functions deployed. It's a common scenario, and depending on how you've built the architecture for the solution, it can come in handy to use Dependency Injection to instantiate a service once when the Function App (host) starts
Issues with "Cannot bind parameter 'log' to type ILogger." after upgrading Azure Functions to v3 Paid Members Public
I have a lot of Azure Functions. Most of them are running on v2 with support for .NET Core 2.2 and netstandard2.0. During the upgrade process of my projects, I stumbled onto this several times across different projects: Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host: Cannot bind parameter 'log'
Azure Functions and secure Configuration with built-in integration to Azure Key Vault Paid Members Public
Azure Functions are usually tied to an Azure Storage Account by using App Settings. Unfortunately, when launching a new Function App project in Visual Studio, or watching demos and examples online, the connection string usually is in App Settings in plain text. In this post I'm sharing a
Send health pings from your Azure Function applications to ensure Scheduled triggers work as expected Paid Members Public
Sometimes the Scheduled trigger for Azure Functions does not fire, and we'll need to ensure we can monitor our systems accordingly to keep track of, and troubleshoot when this happens. In this post I'll walk through the required steps for two various monitoring options using Application Insights.
Introduction to Azure App Configuration for Developers with C# .NET Core Paid Members Public
Azure App Configuration helps us centralize configuration and makes it a lot easier to manage distributed apps, web sites, Functions, containers, your microservices and more.
Getting the instance id of a running Azure Function with ExecutionContext.InvocationId Paid Members Public
Recently I had a discussion about Azure Functions, the pros and cons, and running multiple instances of batch processing simultaneously. One of the immediate questions that came up in that discussion was; In the built-in logs you see in the streaming log service or in the log console, how do
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