In this post we’ll go over how to work around Terraform to both deploy a shared private link between two resources (Azure AI Search & Azure OpenAI) and then automatically approve it. Shared Private Links (SPLs) are a way for two Azure resources to communicate over a Private Endpoint (PE), which routes traffic over an… Read More »
It’s no secret to those who know me that I really dislike Terraform. It’s not because of the technology or the concept, though, but rather because of its execution at a project level. As a funded company, it does a piss poor job at keeping up to date – it’s clearly gotten “too big for… Read More »
Recently we started deploying Dev Box to various divisions in the company, so I gave it a shot. Aside from being your typical VM-in-the-cloud, Dev Box offered a couple of interesting bonuses:
As of this writing, I manage 29 packages on Chocolatey.org. One thing it’s imperative package authors do, though, is keep their packages up to date as new versions of the software they’re wrapping get released. Without this, packages simply atrophy and the value of Chocolatey goes down. That said, managing nearly 30 packages would be an all-consuming task if I was forced to monitor all the various distribution channels as well as hand-roll updates to them whenever they were released. So how do I do it? Let me show you.
The last in the series, a walk through on taking our problem statement and implementing it with the new abstraction from the Azure Functions team, Durable Functions
Create a simple workflow orchestration using Azure Functions, executed both sequentially and in parallel
A quick walkthrough on taking the Flow created in Part 1 and upgrading to Azure’s workflow orchestration offering: Logic Apps
A walkthrough of an example using Microsoft Flow to perform a common backend operation: data validation
A walkthrough of creating an Azure Function to convert XML to JSON and vice-versa, including pitfalls and gotchyas of returning XML from Azure Functions
A quick walkthrough on creating an Alexa Skill backed by Azure Functions