In yesterdays post comparing Azure Functions to AWS Lambda the EP1 plan was a notable poor performer – to the extent I wandered if it was an anomalous result. For context here is yesterday’s results for a low load test: I created a new plan this morning with a view to exploring the results further…
Update: the results below showed the EP1 plan to be a clear outlier in some of its performance results. I’ve since retested on a fresh EP1 plan and confirmed these results as accurate and been able to provide further insight into the performance: Azure Functions Performance – Update on EP1 Results – Azure From The…
Part 5 of my series on writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey is now available on YouTube: This part focuses on adding authorisation with the help of an external identity provider – in this case Auth0.
Part 4 of my series on writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey is now available on YouTube: This part focuses on addressing cross cutting concerns in a DRY manner by implementing a custom command dispatcher. I’ve also switched over to Rider as my main IDE now and in this video I’m making use of its…
Part 3 of my series on writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey focuses on writing tests using the newly released testing package – while this is by no means required it does make writing high value acceptance tests that use your applications full runtime easy and quick. Lessons Learned It really is amazing how quickly…
Part 2 in my series of writing and testing Azure Functions with Function Monkey looks at adding validation and returning appropriate status codes from HTTP requests. Part 3 will look at acceptance testing this. (Don’t worry – we’re going to look at some additional trigger types soon!) Lessons Learned I made a bunch of changes…
I’ve long thought about creating some video content but forever put it off – like many people I dislike seeing and hearing myself on video (as I quipped half in jest, half in horror, on Twitter “I have a face made for radio and a voice for silent movies”). I finally convinced myself to just…
When I originally posted this piece the library I was using and developing was in an early stage of development. The good news if you’re looking to build REST APIs with Azure Functions its now pretty mature, well documented, and carries the name Function Monkey. A good jumping off point is this video series here:…
A while back I wrote about the improvements Microsoft were working on in regard to the HTTP trigger function scaling issues. The Functions team got in touch with me this week to let me know that they had an initial set of improvements rolling out to Azure. To get an idea of how significant these…
Since I published this piece Microsoft have made significant improvements to HTTP scaling on Azure Functions and the below is out of date. Please see this post for a revised comparison. Following the analysis I published on Azure Functions and the latency in scaling HTTP triggered functions the Microsoft development team got in touch to…
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