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Microsoft Build 2023: Highlights for App Developers

Last week, Microsoft's annual Developer conference took place and besides interesting sessions, a bunch of new announcements have been made. This post summarizes the most important ones for App Developers, along with a list of recommended sessions to watch.

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Redirect WebSockets to different backends in Azure API Management

Azure API Management supports proxying WebSocket connections between clients and multiple backends. Adding a WebSocket API to API Management configures the handshake operation automatically. But what if we want to chose a backend based on the WebSockets URL? Let's explore our options.

Azure Functions

Instrumenting Azure Functions in Containers with Application Insights

Application Insights with Azure Functions in containers is tricky. Here is how to set the Cloud Role Name and Instrumentation Key

Kubernetes

Find a new home for your Prometheus metrics and Grafana Dashboards outside your Kubernetes cluster in Azure Monitor

Replace your self-hosted Prometheus and Grafana with Azure Monitor, a fully-managed and centralized logging, metrics and dashboard solution without vendor lock-in.

Kubernetes

Use Azure KeyVault with ASP.NET Core running in an AKS cluster using AAD Pod Identity

Azure Key Vault in combination with Managed Identity keeps all secrets out of environment variables in AKS.

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Azure Key Vault references for Application Settings with Terraform

Keep secrets not only out of your code but also out of your Application Settings. Here is how to configure that with Terraform ensuring that the latest version will be used.

API Management

Control ingress to AKS with Azure API Management

In this blog post, we will discuss, how to use Azure API Management as an ingress point for AKS services, that are not exposed publically and how other services in the Kubernetes cluster can use the same API Management instance to communicate with these APIs while leveraging the power of

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Check if Pull Requests violate EditorConfig rules with Azure DevOps Pipelines

If you work in a project with multiple different developers, you might be using EditorConfig to standardize the coding styles and file formats across your team members. EditorConfig helps developers define and maintain consistent coding styles between different editors and IDEs. Although EditorConfig does a great job here, it only

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Microsoft Ignite 2018: App Innovation Highlights

This week, Microsoft’s yearly Ignite Conference took place in Orlando, Florida. Ignite focuses mostly on cloud topics and is beside Microsoft Build the second biggest Microsoft IT conference of the year. Here are my developer centric highlights summarized! Compute Azure Functions: Runtime 2.0 Released Official Announcement The improved

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Deploy an Azure Web App for Containers with Terraform

If you are doing modern web development these days, chances are high that you do it with Docker Containers. If you are creating modern cloud architectures these days, chances are high, that you do it with automation tools like Terraform. But if you want to use Azure Web Apps as

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Microsoft Build 2018: App Innovation Highlights

From Monday to Wednesday, //build 2018 conference took place in Seattle. It’s in the nature of Microsoft’s largest and most importantdeveloper conference to announce a bunch of cool stuff and updates to their Cloud, AI, and Frontend developer tools and services. Here are my developer centric highlights

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Replace your old cronjobs with free Azure Functions within 5 minutes

For some of my older projects, I had some repetitive tasks where a simple job triggers a script to run and loadsome data from the web. For this, I used good old cronjobs like the ones cronjob.de offers. As this was expensive und quite unsatisfying in terms of

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Different ways to register devices to the Azure IoT Hub

The Azure IoT Hub is Microsoft’s Internet of Things solution inthe cloud. Beside the commoneventmessage endpoints, it contains a device management system, which allows to register and manage devices that may send data to the IoT Hub. This increases security by generating a unique access key

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Manually connect and send data to an Azure Event Hub

Update 04.02.2017: As theMicrosoft.Azure.EventHubs NuGet package since two days finally support every .NET platform, this post go obsolete. Azure Event Hubs provide a neat way to collect loads of data that is pushed against them and holds it until its processing. Microsoft offers an SDK