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First Look at Azure Static Web Apps
Note: part 2 looks at the authentication and authorization part. At Build 2020, Microsoft announced Azure Static Web Apps, a new way to host static web apps on Azure. In the past, static web apps, which are just a combination of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, could be hosted in a Storage Account or a regular…
apiSecuring access to and from Azure Functions
I am often asked how to secure access to and from Azure Functions that are not running in an App Service Environment (ASE). An App Service Environment allows you to safeguard your apps in a subnet of your Azure Virtual Network. In a sense, it gives you a private deployment of Azure App Service that…
azureTrying Google Cloud Run
With the release of Google’s Cloud Run, I decided to check it out with my nasnet container. With Cloud Run, you simply deploy your container and let Google scale it based on the requests it receives. When your container is not used, it gets scaled to zero. As such, it combines the properties of a…
cloudAzure API Management Consumption Tier
In the previous post, I talked about a personal application I use to deploy Azure resources to my lab subscription. The architecture is pretty straightforward: After obtaining an id token from Azure Active directory (v1 endpoint), API calls go to API Management with the token in the authorization HTTP header. API Management is available in…
apiHave some fun with Slash Webtasks and Slack
At ThingTank we really love a tool like Slack because of its simplicity and extensibility. Like so many, we use it to get notifications from all sorts of systems. A lot of websites and tools integrate with Slack such as Azure Logic Apps or CI systems like Shippable. Those types of integrations are very easy…
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