Since I published this piece Microsoft have made significant improvements to HTTP scaling on Azure Functions. I’ve not yet had the opportunity to test performance on dedicated app service plans but please see this post for a revised comparison on the Consumption Plan. After my last few posts on the scaling of Azure Functions I was…
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I published this piece Microsoft have made significant improvements to HTTP scaling on Azure Functions and the below is out of date.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. I had a lot of interesting conversations and feedback following my recent post on scaling a serverless .NET application with Azure Functions and AWS…
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I published this piece Microsoft have made significant improvements to HTTP scaling on Azure Functions and the below is out of date.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. If you’ve been following my blog recently you’ll know I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Azure Functions – Microsoft’s implementation of…
I’ve been spending a little time building out a serverless web application as a small holiday project and as this is just a side project I’d taken the opportunity to try out the new .NET Core based v2 runtime for Azure Functions and the new tooling and support in Visual Studio 2017. As soon as I…
While running the experiment I posted about on Sunday I annotated the message I sent on to the event hub with the Azure Functions view of the current time (basically I set a property to DateTime.UtcNow) and, out of curiosity, grouped my results by second long tumbling windows based on that date. This gave me…
I’m a big fan of the serverless compute model (known as Azure Functions on the Azure platform), but in some ways its greatest strength is also its weakness: the serverless model essentially asks you to run small units of code inside a fully managed environment on a pay for what you need basis that in theory…
As I’ve worked with a wider variety of cloud vendors in recent months I’m becoming increasingly unsure who Azure is a good fit for. To contextualise this a lot of my work has been based around fairly common application patterns: APIs, SPAs, data storage, message brokers, background activities. As some of this is self funded…
(I’m happy to engage with anyone about MS / Azure about this but I don’t think their is any new feedback here sadly – its a “more of the same” thing) This last week I needed to deploy a greenfield system to Azure for the first time in a good while and so it seemed…
Farmer is a DSL for generating and executing ARM templates and one of the great things about it is that its based on .NET Core. That means that you can use it in combination with other components from the .NET ecosystem to create end to end typesafe deployment solutions. As an aside – I recently…
There are an awful lot of services available on Azure but I’ve noticed a pattern emerging in a lot of my work around web apps. At their core they often have a similar architecture, deployment in Azure, and process for build and release. For context a lot my hands on work over the last 3…
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