For a recent project I worked on we used Azure Search for providing search functionalities over data in our Azure Cosmos DB. Search is a cloud search service from Microsoft that integrates seamlessly with some Azure data services such as SQL Databases, Cosmos DB and Storage. For the frontend that […]
Limit SQL Server access to Azure App Service
Since Dev is my favorite part of DevOps I always try to automate the Ops as much as possible using scripts. Scripting manual work can also help prevent errors, especially when the work has to be done on multiple environments. In this case the scripts can be tested on the […]
Azure Pipelines – conditions in yaml
The current industry standard is having CI/CD pipelines defined as part of the application code so it can be managed in the version control system the same as any application code is managed. Of course Azure DevOps has build-in support for this with pipeline code defined in yaml files. In […]
KeyVault References
With the recommendation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation to take the step of containerization, Azure App Service will likely not be the number one web hosting option in the cloud even if it CAN run containers. Still, App Service is a mature hosting platform and has an enormous amount […]
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Protect part of a public API with Azure APIM
Azure API Management (APIM) is a great tool for safely exposing internal API’s to the internet. With a few clicks API’s can be protected with several easy to implement security mechanisms such as subscription keys and client certificates. The easiest way to expose a private API to an external party […]
Breaking on first chance exceptions
According to MSDN a first chance exception: Occurs when an exception is thrown in managed code, before the runtime searches the call stack for an exception handler in the application domain. A first chance exception is not another type of exception like a NullReferenceException. Every exception that is thrown in […]