Azure Functions is the perfect tool for sending emails from websites and apps. It’s lightweight, fast, and scalable. Add SendGrid to it and you have a match made in heaven. In one of our products at Expeed, we pair Azure Functions with blob storage, queues, and table storage from an Azure Storage account, with SendGrid […]
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Azure SQL is one of my favourite Azure services. After many years of managing SQL Servers and databases, I can say that spinning up a database on a managed SQL server with variable resources per database is heavenly. Creating a database on Azure SQL is very quick and easy to do. To create a new
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So the time has come to upgrade your old Azure Functions app to the latest version. Now that we have the .NET Upgrade Assistant, the process is “fairly” pain-free. However, if you run through the upgrade process, and fix any Nuget issues and binding issues (like no more QueueInput binding!) then you may encounter the
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Even though the built-in logging in .NET Core is pretty good these days, Serilog takes it to the next level, making complex logging exceptionally easy. Serilog allows us to not only log the output of the functions to the Console but also write to a Log file, Application Insights, Raygun, Sentry, or any number of
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Google and Yahoo have both announced a new set of requirements that senders must meet from the beginning of February 2024 to ensure that their email is delivered to mailboxes on their services. Creating a DMARC record for your domain is key to proper domain security. The long and short of these requirements are that
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About 18 months ago, I took over a product that was fully run on Azure. The solution costs had ballooned from $2000/month at its inception, to almost $5000/month after being on Azure for about 2.5 years. In this article, I’ll talk through how I did a deep dive into each component of the solution to
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