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Festive Tech Calendar 2022 - Building a Marvel Hero app using Blazor Web Assembly and Azure Static Web Apps

Building a Marvel Hero catalog app using Blazor Web Assembly Introduction This article describes all the steps on how to develop a Marvel Hero catalog app, using Blazor Web Assembly, and is a companion guide to the Festive Tech Calendar 2022 session I presented. This app introduces Blazor .NET development, and more specifically how to easily create a Single Page App using HTML, CSS and API calls to an external API Service at https://developer.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Wednesday, December 28, 2022

How OnyxBoox - with some help from a friend - got me back to reading more... books

I have to admit, I am not a real book reader, and the bit of reading I am doing typically involves Azure-related tech books, or what my wife and family describes as “business books” (Biographies, Non-fiction company stories such as the start of Netflix, Uber, Silicon Valley,…). For several years, I relied on an Amazon Kindle app on my (cheap) Samsung A8 tablet, dating from the time I was traveling weekly and wanted to travel light.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, December 23, 2022

How to clear the Azure Portal Recent Resources list

This post is a short one, but something that has been bugging me for a while, where I didn’t even know how to fix it. As I am deploying a lot of different Azure Resources every week while delivering Azure trainings, I also run a lot of deletions during the week, or at least by the end of the week. To repeat about the same process the week after when doing another Azure training delivery.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Friday, December 23, 2022

Book review - Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC

In this post, I want to share my review of another Blazor book I read recently, Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC this time from Vaclav Perakek, published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. If you have been following me for a while, you know I’m gradually learning more about coding and developing applications, especially using the Blazor .NET framework. What intrigued me even more with this book, is the gRPC integration.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, December 17, 2022

Using Packt Publishing Credits for free books

Hey readers, This is actually a less technical post, although it can lead to a lot of technical resources. I honestly wrote this blog for myself this time, as I struggled in finding a way to get free books in my Packt Publishing subscription. I had credits, but I always forget how to claim them :). So I guess I’m not the only one having that problem. What are Packt Credits, and how to get them Packt allows for one-time paying for a book, getting a monthly paid subscription, a 12-month or 18-month one.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, November 12, 2022

How I migrated my Hugo site from Azure Storage Site to Azure Static Web Apps

For about 3 years now, I’ve been running this personal blog site using Hugo, running on Azure Static Storage Sites and Azure Front Door as load balancer/TLS protection service. About 18 months back, Microsoft released Azure Static Web Apps, a platform built for exactly that, hosting Static Web sites, such as Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, .NET Blazor, and also… Hugo :). As I had to migrate my resources to a new Azure subscription and tenant, I thought this was a perfect moment to migrate to SWA.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 30, 2022

Integrating Azure App Insights for Hugo on Static Web Apps

Hey folks, Earlier this week, I wrote about how I migrated my Hugo blog site from Azure Storage Account-based site to the newer Azure Static Web Apps with Hugo. While this was a smooth process, both migrating the actual site content, as well as transferring the public domain name, the piece missing was the statistics. I always used Azure Application Insights for this, but specifically for Azure Static Web Apps, App Insights is only supported when using Functions (as per this article on the Microsoft docs).

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 30, 2022

The Art of Realizing SRE on Azure - Book Review

As most of you know already, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books. So if you are wondering why it’s been quiet lately, there is a good reason for it. Actually, I was writing on my 9th book, making it 9 books in 9 years straight, but something got in-between the writing process and publishing. It’s called US Visa regulations :). Beginning this year, January 5th actually, I relocated from Belgium to Redmond, WA for Microsoft Corp.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, October 29, 2022

DevOps Workflow Generator

Hey awesome people, For the ones who know me, it shouldn’t be a surprise I’m interested in DevOps, mainly using Azure DevOps and GitHub as core technologies, as well as several side-solutions that integrate with them. So when I heard about the DevOps Workflow Generator, a new free tool from the Microsoft Research Lab division, I wanted to give it a spin. The Concepts of DevOps DevOps according to Microsoft’s Definition: The Union of People, Processes and Products, to enable continuous delivery of value to the business

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, April 3, 2022

Azure Spring Clean - DevSecOps and Shifting Left

Hey folks, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton which celebrates its 3rd edition this year. I’m thrilled to be part of this again for the 2nd time this year. My first article had security in mind, explaining the difference between Azure Service Principals and Managed Identity. For this second article, I’m staying in the security focus, helping you understand DevSecOps, and how you can optimize security in your application deployment lifecycle, by “shifting left”.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Thursday, March 17, 2022