How to easily deploy a Go app to Azure

Learn how to send emails using Sendgrid from a containerized Go app hosted on Azure

App Insights Part 2 – Stream your data

This post is the 2nd part of my review of Azure's App Insights service. The first part introduced some of the features provided by App Insights and  covered 2 ways of exporting and using events outside of Azure. In this post I'll cover the third option of exporting events which I believe is the best for storing …

Azure App Insights – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Many articles can be written on Azure's App Insights. This Application Performance Management (APM) service can be used for all aspects of KPI monitoring and dashboards of your servers. Through the usage of analytics and machine learning, you can easily and quickly gain insights into what's going on both on your back-end and front-end applications. We …

Docker, Linux & Azure – Entity extraction in a few mintues

Yes, Having Azure, Docker and Linux in the same sentences is something that you don't see every day. But with the latest addition from Microsoft, not only that it is possible but you can have any docker container you want running as a fully hosted web app on Azure in only a few minutes. Want …

Azure Search – Lucene based search engine

Having search capabilities as part of an application is a must these days. A very popular search solution is Elasticsearch, which is built on top of the open source project of  Lucene, providing both on-premise and SaaS deployment options.Microsoft has built its own engine Microsoft has built its own search engine simply named Azure Search which …

Azure Functions – Periodic email with SendGrid

This is the second post on Azure Functions. The first part included introduction and example for getting a DB report in CSV format. In this post, I'll continue to show helpful usages for functions. I'll show how to create a timer-based function that sends an email when certain conditions are met. Let's get started. For …

Azure Functions – Serverless coding made easy

Azure Functions is one of Microsoft’s solutions to serverless computing – running small pieces of code without having to worry about managing the server, complicated deployments and integrations. Functions support several coding languages, can scale on demand and cost only when you use it. It is very easy to start using Functions, but in some …