“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton When it comes to naming resources I always somewhat follow the guidance recommended at Recommended naming and tagging conventions – Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Docs. Personally, I put more emphasis on tagging than naming, the tags can…
I like a one to one mapping between my controllers and actions, e.g. I have a controller to add an entity, delete an entity, and so on. I wired up Swagger support for my .NET Core API per Adding Swagger to ASP.NET Core 3.1 Web API (coderjony.com). When I view the Swagger documentation in the…
I was trying to secure an Azure API Management (APIM) APIs with OAuth 2.0 and Azure AD per Protect API backend in API Management using OAuth 2.0 and Azure AD – Azure API Management | Microsoft Docs. My APIM managed API calls a back-end .NET Core API secured with Managed Identity. In my policy, which…
Been a little while since I last posted, but wanted to share with you a link to some exciting new features in CosmosDB around Date and Time System Functions. Enjoy!
With help from a teammate, I completed an ARM Template and PowerShell script to deploy a Cosmos API Connection for a Logic App to Azure. Thought I would share with everyone, in case you are curious on how to accomplish this. Download these two files and navigate to the directory and run the following script…
In my effort to get better with Azure ARM Templates I encountered the following error in one of my deployments: Validation returned the following errors: The template deployment ‘XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX’ is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is ‘XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX’. See inner errors for details. To get a more verbose version of the…
Dynamic variables allow you to randomly generate values for your Postman requests, e.g. First Name and Company Name. Postman dynamic variables include: Common Text, Numbers and Colors Internet and IP Addresses Names Profession Phone, Address and Location Images Finance Business Catchphrases This is a fun one! Databases Dates Domains, Emails and Usernames Files and Directories…
What is an Azure region? According to the docs, an Azure region is defined as a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated low-latency network. There is also an Azure geography which defines an area of the world containing at least one Azure region. And lastly, there are…
The docs are a little lite on examples of Azure Functions using Azure Storage Blobs, so I took a couple of hours and created a few more examples that I will share in this article. The code can be found at https://github.com/mattruma/MJR061. You will first want to create the resources in Azure, follow the instructions…
Ever wanted to do something after a user logs in or logs out of your Blazor App? Surprisingly, it fairly simple to do. In VS Code I created a Blazor WebAssembly project that uses Azure ADB2C for authentication. Once scaffolded, I navigated to the Authenticate.razor page in the Pages folder. The RemoteAuthenticatorView component supports two…
