Azure Functions

Azure Functions SendGrid

Sending email from Azure Functions with SendGrid

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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Save costs on azure

Practical tips on how I achieved 45% Savings on my Microsoft Azure billing

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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Azure Functions SendGrid To Error

Error sending email via SendGrid from Azure Functions

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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Azure Functions telemetry dependency failures

Ignore Azure Function false positive dependency failures using TelemetryInitializers

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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