Validate the API in batch and only release the application to the production environment after validation automatically — Release pipeline in Azure DevOps allows developers to deploy applications across multiple stages. The release pipeline is similar in the way that DevOps engineers can define automated tasks and jobs such as build process, unit test, integration test, etc. In addition to the tasks…

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a serverless, cloud-based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool, commonly used as a data pipeline to move data from data sources to other data destinations, be it cloud or on-premises. It provides a graphic user interface, comes with a pre-built connector for both 1st party and…

Event driven architecture is common among large scale application, or cloud native application. In Azure context, Azure Event Hub and Azure Service Bus are the 2 most common Azure services to serve as messaging service and orchestrate messages to respective endpoint / micro-services. Diagram below is a common snapshot on…

Modern authentication such as OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect is commonly used in modern web applications and APIs. A common Simple Page Application (SPA) with modern authentication enabled has a similar flow as below (simplified): To further safeguard the backend API, it is common that we place an API gateway to…

Azure Functions and Azure App Service are one of the most used Platform-As-A-Services provided by Microsoft Azure, to remove the complexity of server management and allows developer to focus on application code. …

My very first project was a chatbot for my campus, using Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions powered all backend processing. It was Azure Functions v1 back then, and I was developing it happily in browser (only C# supports in-portal development back then). While portal gives me flexibility and agility…

I have been a huge fan of Azure AD B2C, given the simplicity and extensibility that I can gain when I require authentication in my application. I authored an article on Medium about my experiences using Azure AD B2C together with Visual Studio and ASP.NET Blazor. …

I have been using Azure since 2015/2016, I guess. Witnessed the transition from Windows Azure to Microsoft Azure, from classic portal (manage.windowsazure.com) to current portal (portal.azure.com). My learning journey with Azure started the exploration of Azure on Visual Studio Subscriptions (and I still have it now!), a subscription targeted to…

Containers is gaining popularity due to the ease of deployment and management. This extraction layer removed the complexity and full dependencies on host OS. Here’s a good explanation on containers from cloud perspective: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-a-container/ Azure supports Containers in multiple perspective, which can be summarized below: Container Registry → Azure Container…