Using Dev Tunnels to test your Azure Functions webhook callbacks is a breeze. If your systems contain any third-party integrations with services like SendGrid or Stripe, then you will likely want to receive webhook callbacks so you can be informed about what’s happening with your requests. The Azure Functions HTTP trigger is absolutely perfect for […]
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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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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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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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If you’re seeing an error sending email via SendGrid from Azure Functions v4 Isolated model saying “System.Private.CoreLib: Exception while executing function: Functions.SendEmail. Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.SendGrid: A ‘To’ address must be specified for the message.” then you have a JSON serialization problem! The standard JSON in the newer Azure functions projects is System.Text.Json, which is serialising the returned
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Let me start by saying that I love Appication Insights. The level of detail it gives you out of the box to monitor and troubleshoot application issues is fantastic. BUT, I loathe false positive error messages, especially dependency failures. If you’ve done any work with Azure storage then you’ve likely come across what I’m talking
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Importing CSV files into Azure SQL is quick and easy using Azure Functions. By utilising LinqToSQL, reading and serialising each line of the CSV into an IEnumerable of objects only takes a few lines of code. Start by creating an Azure Functions project in Visual Studio. I’m using Visual Studio 2019 and have ASP.NET Core
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I recently deployed a very simple Azure Functions 2.0 project from Visual Studio 2019 that contained a single timer triggered function. The function had a daily timer trigger and I noticed that there were gaps in the executions in the monitoring tab in the Azure portal.
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