Azure Functions supports various runtimes. One of them is PowerShell. Not all workloads of an Azure Function are complex. In that case, a PowerShell Azure Function might be useful to execute small tasks. In this article, I’m creating an Azure Function based on PowerShell. I’m coding the required infrastructure with…

And deploying it from Azure DevOps to an Azure Function — Azure Functions is a serverless technology that allows you to process events. It allows you to act on a blob being added, for example, or a message being published on a queue or an HTTP request. You can write an Azure function in Python, PowerShell, C#, Node, or Java. When…

Who wants to build a monolith nowadays? Microservices are the way to go! But that’s no cheap alternative. It introduces all sorts of complexity. For example: Assume having several user-interface agnostic microservices, how “chatty” will your SPA or mobile app become? General-purpose APIs might require consumers of APIs to aggregate…

OAuth2 is a great protocol to authenticate people. And it does just that: Authentication. So.. What about authorization? Implementing authorization in an API is pretty straightforward. And there are several ways to do it. In many projects, authorization and business logic tend to get mixed up. As a result, the…

Lately, things are getting confusing. There’s .NET Framework, there’s .NET Core, and there’s .NET. They’re all pretty much the same, but they are very much different. It all began with the .NET Framework in 2002. In the past twenty years software changed our society. Individuals and businesses rely on software…

CQRS is an abbreviation for Command and Query Responsibility Segregation. It means every single endpoint of an application either executes a command or retrieves data. Never both. Many people refer to Greg Young when they talk about CQRS. He published this pdf which describes the concepts in depth. Greg Young…

In 2017 Uncle Bob wrote a great book about clean architecture. It explains the principles of a good software architecture. The book contains lots of information about the SOLID principles, about boundaries in the application, about screaming architecture, and so forth. What’s great about the book, is that it isn’t…

Estimating a story in hours is common practice. But often, estimations in hours prove not to be accurate. How much time it takes to complete a task depends on a lot of variables. There’s a better way. Estimating stories by size rather than the time needed to complete it, results…

Applications automate processes. Somebody explains the process and someone else builds the application. Seems straight forward, right? Or is it? Perhaps this video changes your mind: Describing a task as simple as making a sandwich seems simple, but as you can see, plenty of things that can go wrong…