When designing applications, having a data store is very common. Regardless of microservices or any other methodology you use designing the data store will be different compared to how you design your application. Although the data store migration activities will be associated with your application changes, separating that from your…

Azure functions are getting improved, and updated more frequently now. Recently it has been upgraded to support identity based triggers and bindings. The Azure function will be provided only the required roles to access the resource so that its more secure. …

I love “Infrastructure as Code because it provides you the luxury of making continuous improvements to your infrastructure by treating it as code. In reality, as developers we try to design and code to the best of our ability or come and refactor later. …

This post is about dependency injection using Microsoft dependency injection framework. I use it a lot in my daily work and in personal projects. When compared to its alternatives such as AutoFac or Ninject one of the missing features (as of now) is to “discover” the dependencies and register in…

Azure functions are great! but as in many frameworks there are times where you would like to extend or write your own custom logic to do what you are intending to do. It’s not about re-inventing the wheel of course, but how to use the underlying framework’s extension points so…

Introduction It’s always a best practice to secure the APIs (or any other resource) once deployed into the cloud. In here let’s build a set of APIs which will be deployed to Azure and, make them accessible to each other securely. Scenario which we’ll be designing A popular API design pattern is backend for front end…

Introduction As in any other application, testing Azure functions are utmost important. Unit tests are targeted towards only a narrowed down aspect of the whole picture (as it should be anyways). Integration tests as per the name actually verifies how two or more components behave when integrated. But what if? We would like to…

Introduction Azure durable functions lets you implement stateful functions. This is especially important if you would like to orchestrate a particular set of functions such as in a work flow fashion. …

In a previous article I explained how to load custom settings and to inject them as dependencies to your classes. In here we are going to use custom JSON files to represent different configurations and how we can register them as dependencies. The source code for this post can be…