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  • Building a real-time messaging server in Go

    Building a real-time messaging server in Go

    Often, I need a simple real-time server and web interface that shows real-time events. Although there are many options available like socket.io for Node.js or services like Azure SignalR and PubNub, I decided to create a real-time server in Go with a simple web front-end: For a real-time server in Go, there are several options.… Read more

  • Infrastructure as Code: exploring Pulumi

    Infrastructure as Code: exploring Pulumi

    Image: from the Pulumi website In my Twitter feed, I often come across Pulumi so I decided to try it out. Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code solution that allows you to use familiar development languages such as JavaScript, Python and Go. The idea is that you define your infrastructure in the language that you… Read more

  • Azure API Management Consumption Tier

    Azure 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… Read more

  • Simple Azure AD Authentication in a single page application (SPA)

    Simple Azure AD Authentication in a single page application (SPA)

    Adding Azure AD integration to a website is often confusing if you are just getting started. Let’s face it, not everybody has the opportunity to dig deep into such topics. For https://deploy.baeke.info, I wanted to enable Azure AD authentication so that only a select group of users in our AD tenant can call the back-end… Read more

  • Azure Front Door in front of a static website

    Azure Front Door in front of a static website

    In the previous post, I wrote about hosting a simple static website on an Azure Storage Account. To enable a custom URL such as https://geertbaeke.wordpress.com, you can add Azure CDN. If you use the Verizon Premium tier, you can configure rules such as a http to https redirect rule. This is similar to hosting static… Read more

  • Static site hosting on Azure Storage with a custom domain and TLS

    Static site hosting on Azure Storage with a custom domain and TLS

    A while ago, I blogged about webhookd. It is an application, written in Go, that can easily convert a folder structure with shell scripts into webhooks. With the help of CertMagic, I modified the application to support Let’s Encrypt certificates. The application is hosted on an Azure Linux VM that uses a managed identity to… Read more