Playing with Azure Functions: Creating a Slack bot
Past March, Microsoft launched the preview of Azure Functions, often referred as an Amazon Lambda competitor.
This being my first post about this topic, I will briefly introduce Azure Functions...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Intro
In these series of posts, we’re going to compare different ways of connecting to Azure. We’ll setup a web service and a client. We’re going to see which architecture...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Four
Starting with a real-world application of Azure (it’s used here on Create), this scenario is a direct 24/7 VPN link to a gateway in Azure. This is a business-oriented...
Azure Blob Storage Metadata 400 Bad Request
I was getting a 400 Bad Request when inserting blobs in Azure Blob Storage because I was setting metadata with non-ASCII characters.
// Retrieve storage account from connection string.
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount =...
Azure Search Index with 2 datasources
Recently I had the need to index documents stored in Azure Storage Blobs. Additionally I wanted to use the blob storage metadata also to add some information to those...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part One
First test - TeamViewer VPN
In this first test, we are connected via TeamViewer VPN (specification of this technology at the last post) to an Azure VM (Virtual Machine). This...
Straight A’s in WebPagetest with Umbraco
Before launching a new website, there's a checklist I go through, to make sure that everything is ready. One of the items in my checklist is to test the...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Seven
In this scenario we would be using a Relay. This is yet another way of connecting your on-premises infrastructure to Azure, but not recommended at all in terms of...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Six
In this test, we’ll be using Function Apps and Logic Apps. Function Apps are a serverless concept of running custom code in Azure. Serverless is capable of scaling when...
Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Conclusions
And when all testing’s complete… A final review is coming! So, brace yourselves and let’s start with a graph ?
Note: 5MB results must be multiplied by 10 (value x...