I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Azure Solution Architect Complete Study Guide. The book contains over 700 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great Azure Solution Architect. The book is designed around the requirements for passing both the AZ-303 and AZ-304 […]
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API Management APIM 404 Azure App Service Azure Function
There is perhaps another way to do this, but I wasn’t able to find any documentation about configuring an Azure App Service or Azure Function here. After I created the APIM and API hosted on App Service I received a HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found when I tried testing it from the APIM portal. Figure 1, […]
Read More →JSON is slow, deserialization, DeserializationObject
The expected latency when downloading anything from a server to a client should increase as the size of the file increases. Simply, the bigger the file the longer it takes to download. There is a common step when writing an API that returns a JSON formatted file, which is the deserialization of the data content […]
Read More →Azure Function keys, keys and more keys, regenerated and synced
A very important point you must understand when it comes to working with Azure Functions is that that product is tightly bound to an Azure Storage account. You see, Azure Functions is a compute offering, when you provision that you are getting some CPU, some memory and a host to run the code on. The […]
Read More →Debugging an ASP.NET Core app using WinDbg, plus some other information
Things change and as I always say “that’s better than the alternative”. Although I have yet to put my finger on it, the behavior I experience when debugging Core applications is different than those which have come before. If I ever do figure out the specifics of those differences, I will write them down and […]
Read More →Securing an Azure App Service or Azure Function PaaS
A common topic I would like to call out which I see in regards to security has to do with endpoints. I kind of want to call those endpoints “potentially vulnerable attack vectors”. I am a bit nervous writing “vulnerable” because the endpoints I mention here are secure, which is why I also called out […]
Read More →Quantum Computing – the beginning of my journey
Quantum Computing is becoming one of my areas of high interest. That normally means I will overdo it, I’ll try to control myself but will likely fail. I have only just stared my journey on this road but I am certain to continue down it. I think my previous project like the 6502 which helped […]
Read More →Consumption vs. Runtime Scaling in Azure Functions
Technical terminology is its own language. If I speak German to a person who doesn’t understand the words I am saying, it would be the same as saying “hey, I was working on a runtime scaling issue yesterday and it was crazy awesome.” You might get the point that I was working on a runtime […]
Read More →Setting up a hacking lab with Kali Linux and Metasploitable, Part 1
I’m not a hacker, I don’t see the good that can come from it really. But, I do want to know how to do it so I can take necessary precautions. Also, I read about hacking and wonder sometimes if it really is possible these days. The attack vector which exploits the vulnerabilities of humans, […]
Read More →FAILED TO INITIALIZE RUN FROM PACKAGE.txt
I was doing some deployments to an Azure Function and found this text file in my d:\home\site\wwwroot directory. This can happen if you are trying to run an Azure Function from package, which is discussed here. Real fast, the way you get this to happen is by making a deployment, then after the deployment is […]
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