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Make Serverless Music - Orchestrate your workflow with Azure [Part 4 - Durable Functions]
At this point you've seen 3 relatively straightforward ways to orchestrate operations for a workflow...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 06/01/2018
Make Serverless Music - Orchestrate your workflow with Azure [Part 3 - Azure Functions]
At this point we've seen the declarative way to define a workflow orchestration using both Microsoft...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 05/31/2018
Make Serverless Music - Orchestrate your workflow with Azure [Part 2 - Logic Apps]
Ready for a 30 second tutorial? Because Microsoft recognizes the needs of its users often grow and...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 05/30/2018
Make Serverless Music - Orchestrate your workflow with Azure [Part 1 - Microsoft Flow]
In this series we take an in-depth look at how you can orchestrate and coordinate processes...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 05/29/2018
Creating an XML JSON Converter in Azure Functions
Your first thought is probably "but why?" and that's fair. So let me explain. I'm a heavy...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 05/25/2018
Azure and Alexa, creating conversation with ease
It might surprise you to know that I own an Alexa device, being the Microsoft die-hard that I am. As...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 04/27/2018
Publishing to an Event Grid topic from .Net
If you're using Azure's Event Grid and want to publish a custom event to an Event Grid topic, you...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 02/06/2018
Locally debugging an Azure Function triggered by Azure Event Grid
When working with Azure Event Grid, say for something like Azure Blob Storage Events, it's useful to...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 11/30/2017
Using Azure API Management to prevent Denial of Wallet attacks
I know, you're probably thinking, "wait what? Denial of Wallet attacks?" Welcome to the world of...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 11/06/2017
Using Middleware to trap Exceptions in Asp.Net Core
Recently while working on a project I found myself writing a ton of boilerplate code throughout that...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 07/31/2017
Monitoring the Nuget feed using Azure Functions
In my previous post, I showed you a serverless way to accomplish this using Microsoft Flow. Today,...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 07/17/2017
Monitoring the Nuget feed using Microsoft Flow
As the author of a few packages on nuget.org I often find myself needing to know if/when any of the...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 07/16/2017
Bot.Builder.Extensions: Extensions for Microsoft’s Bot Framework
After over a year of using Microsoft's Bot Framework to build bots for myself and others, I felt the...
Author: Brandon H (MSFT) Date: 05/18/2017