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Lessons learned when creating reusable YAML templates

Lessons learned when creating reusable YAML templates

I recently wrote about how to utilize reusable YAML templates in Azure DevOps. A shared source control repository for YAML templates gives great value from a re-usability point of view. This blog post concentrates more on how you should formulate YAML templates to make them as reusable as possible. Template

How to use Azure Anomaly Detector to find anomalies in electricity consumption?

How to use Azure Anomaly Detector to find anomalies in electricity consumption?

Electricity prices are seeking all-time high figures in Finland and most of Europe. I wanted to investigate my electricity consumption a bit more and use Azure AI services to find anomalies in the consumption data. I'll show in this blog post how to create a small console application

Voice controlled Knowledge base application with Azure Cognitive Services

Voice controlled Knowledge base application with Azure Cognitive Services

Did you know that Azure provides a comprehensive amount of AI services that enable you to create ex. voice-controlled applications? More information about the Azure AI Platform can be found here. This blog post introduces you briefly to Azure Cognitive Service & Azure Question Answering Service and shows how to

How to integrate API tests hosted in Postman's Team Workspace to Azure DevOps?

How to integrate API tests hosted in Postman's Team Workspace to Azure DevOps?

My previous blog post covered how to use Postman in API testing and integrate API test execution into the Azure DevOps pipeline. The described solution assumed that API tests were exported to JSON-file which was added to the source control. Handling and maintaining API test JSON files in source control

How to automate database migrations with Fluent Migrator in Azure DevOps?

How to automate database migrations with Fluent Migrator in Azure DevOps?

What is a Fluent Migrator? Fluent Migrator is a migration framework for .NET that enables the creation of database migrations by using C#. This basically means that you can create manually C# class for each migration. Fluent Migrator provides a Fluent API which is a really easy interface to construct

How to utilize reusable components in Azure DevOps pipelines?

How to utilize reusable components in Azure DevOps pipelines?

I worked recently on a project where most of the Build and Release pipelines were refactored to utilize YAML and Bicep instead of using classic Azure pipelines and ARM templates. Refactoring was needed because some of the components used in the Azure pipelines weren't anymore supported by Azure

Working agreement of the software development team

Working agreement of the software development team

When a new team and project starts there are a lot of things that should be agreed together. There are general practicalities and as well technical things which are affecting the team's daily work. This article focuses more on technical things that should be agreed upon as a

How to build Micro-Frontend Architecture with Web Components and BFF (part 2/2)?

How to build Micro-Frontend Architecture with Web Components and BFF (part 2/2)?

This is an extension to the previous post about "How to build Micro-Frontend Architecture with Web Components and BFF (part 1/2)" with code samples. Read the previous post to get more information in general about Micro-Frontend architecture and its pros & cons. Consuming Web Components via Backend

How to build Micro-Frontend Architecture with Web Components and BFF (part 1/2)?

How to build Micro-Frontend Architecture with Web Components and BFF (part 1/2)?

This is blog post handles Micro-Fronted Architecture and how to utilize Web Components via Backed for Frontend. What is Micro-Frontend Architecture? Micro-frontend architecture is a design approach in which a front-end app is decomposed into individual, semi-independent “microapps” working loosely together. The micro-frontend concept is vaguely inspired by, and named

Azure Bicep - Insert Resource feature in VS Code

Azure Bicep - Insert Resource feature in VS Code

What is the Insert Resource feature? Recently Bicep v0.4.1124 was released and it contains a very interesting "Insert Resource" feature. This feature allows you to create Bicep configuration from existing Azure resources in VS Code. This increases productivity if you're just now starting to

Changed my note-taking tool

Changed my note-taking tool

I have been using the Microsoft OneNote tool for about ten years and I have several Notebooks (personal and work-related). Mostly I use note-taking tools for documenting stuff for myself (code samples, architecture patterns, memos, tips and tricks, and random notes). I like to write notes and I have a

How to implement request routing for BFF with YARP

How to implement request routing for BFF with YARP

A few months ago I wrote a blog post that illustrated the usage of the Duende BFF component. Duende BFF handles all Backend for Frontend responsibilities behind the scenes automatically. In this blog post, I'm concentrating more on to reverse proxy side of how to re-route requests to

How to handle application-specific settings in the Azure App Service platform?

How to handle application-specific settings in the Azure App Service platform?

There are multiple ways to handle application-related settings when using Azure App Service. Typically application needs ex. database connection string and authentication-related parameters which should be able to change without deploying the application again. This blog post presents a comparison of typical ways to handle application settings in Azure App

Get notified about service health incidents that have occurred in Azure

Get notified about service health incidents that have occurred in Azure

Wouldn't be nice to receive notifications about any service health incidents that have occurred in Azure? Automated notifications about platform issues could save your troubleshooting time. The status of the Azure service is publicly available here but this site basically offers only a traffic light view without detailed

What you should know when deploying .NET 6 application to Linux-based App Service?

What you should know when deploying .NET 6 application to Linux-based App Service?

I recently worked with the .NET 6 application and for cost-efficiency reasons, I decided to deploy the application to a Linux-based App Service. Everything didn't happen without problems so this blog post describes what you should know when deploying a .NET 6 application to Linux Linux-based app Service

Lessons learned: Assigning Access Policies to KeyVault with Bicep

Lessons learned: Assigning Access Policies to KeyVault with Bicep

Example architecture The chart below describes a quite typical architecture where Microservice resources and KeyVault have their own resource groups. KeyVault is typically located in its own resource group because it's often considered as an environment-specific resource that is used by multiple resources/services. This blog post covers

Deploy .NET 6 application and infrastructure to Azure with Bicep and YAML

Deploy .NET 6 application and infrastructure to Azure with Bicep and YAML

This week I worked with Azure Bicep and YAML to deploy Azure infrastructure. This blog post shows how to utilize Azure Bicep and YAML ("build blocks") to deploy the Weather Forecast application and infrastructure to Azure. This sample utilizes the Weather Forecast application which was created in the

No tokens in the browser implementation inspired by Duende BFF and .NET 6 RC1

No tokens in the browser implementation inspired by Duende BFF and .NET 6 RC1

I recently started to investigate what kind of BFF (backend-for-frontend) options are available if you want to apply the "no tokens in the browser" policy for your application. Backend for frontend is not a new thing but nowadays it's the recommended way to keep tokens out

Minimizing the blog hosting costs

Minimizing the blog hosting costs

I have hosted this blog in Azure App Service (B1 Tier) for a few years now. This App Service has been worked in my Azure Subscription (Visual Studio subscription). Visual Studio subscription provides monthly Azure credits which can be utilized for testing Azure services. Visual Studio Enterprise provides Azure credits

Azure B2C custom MFA implementation

Azure B2C custom MFA implementation

This blog post shows how to configure custom MFA implementation to Azure B2C with custom policies (SignIn). Azure MFA can be easily configured to the custom policies but sometimes custom implementation is required ex. if you want to use your service provider to deliver SMS-based MFA events. The article doesn&

Apple Health CDA data conversion to FHIR with Handlebar engine

Apple Health CDA data conversion to FHIR with Handlebar engine

Previous blog post I showed how to export Apple Health data to the Azure API for FHIR as an attachment document. This is not a very useful approach, especially from the search perspective. This blog post shows how to create a new handlebar template for the FHIR converter which creates

How to setup Strava to Azure API for FHIR integration?

How to setup Strava to Azure API for FHIR integration?

Do you need to automatically import data from Strava to Azure API for FHIR? This blog post shows how to create a simple integration from Strava to Azure API for FHIR. The integration enables the conversion of Strava exercise data to the FHIR observation resource and sends it to Azure

How to export Apple Health data to Azure API for FHIR?

How to export Apple Health data to Azure API for FHIR?

Nowadays Azure has many healthcare-specific services. This blog post introduces you to the FHIR converter and Azure API for FHIR service. I'll show you a simple example of how to export Apple Health data to Azure API for FHIR. What is Azure API for FHIR? The Azure API

How to automate Azure B2C custom policy deployment?

How to automate Azure B2C custom policy deployment?

When you're using Azure AD B2C custom policies you most probably have created TrustedFrameworkBase.xml, TrustedFrameworkExtensions.xml, and ex. SignUpOrSignIn.xml files. These files always contain environment-specific references which are required to change during the deployment process. Microsoft Docs has an article on how to deploy custom policies

Key findings and learnings of Azure AD B2C custom policy configuration with federated authentication

Key findings and learnings of Azure AD B2C custom policy configuration with federated authentication

Background I recently worked on a project where we implemented an application that uses Azure AD B2C as an IDP. In the first phase, users were using local Azure AD B2C to sign up and sign in. The next phase of the project brought federated external IDP sign-in possibilities for