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  • Dapr Service Invocation between an HTTP Python client and a GRPC Go server

    Recently, I published several videos about Dapr on my Youtube channel. The videos cover the basics of state management, PubSub and service invocation. The Getting Started with state management and service invocation: Let’s take a closer look at service invocation with HTTP, Python and Node. Service Invocation with HTTP The services you write (here Service… Read more

  • Integrate an Azure Storage Account with Active Directory

    Integrate an Azure Storage Account with Active Directory

    A customer with a Windows Virtual Desktop deployment needed access to several file shares for one of their applications. The integration of Azure Storage Accounts with Active Directory allows us to provide this functionality without having to deploy and maintain file services on a virtual machine. A sketch of the environment looks something like this:… Read more

  • Adding SMB1 protocol support to Windows Server 2019

    Adding SMB1 protocol support to Windows Server 2019

    I realize this is not a very exciting post, especially compared to my other wonderful musing on this site, but I felt I really had to write it to share the pain! A colleague I work with needed to enable this feature on an Azure Windows Server 2019 machine to communicate with some old system… Read more

  • Adding Authentication and Authorization to an Azure Static Web App

    Adding Authentication and Authorization to an Azure Static Web App

    In a previous post, we created a static web app that retrieves documents from Cosmos DB via an Azure Function. The Azure Function got deployed automatically and runs off the same domain as your app. In essence, that frees you from having to setup Azure Functions separately and configuring CORS in the process. Instead of… Read more

  • First Look at Azure Static Web Apps

    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… Read more

  • Trying Consul Connect on your local machine

    In a previous post, I talked about installing Consul on Kubernetes and using some of its features. In that post, I did not look at the service mesh functionality. Before looking at that, it is beneficial to try out the service mesh features on your local machine. You can easily install Consul on your local… Read more