Auto-scaling your platform with Azure Monitor

Auto-scaling is a great way to not only optimize your costs but also a flexible way of doing asynchronous processing. We will look at how Azure Monitor Autoscale allows you to define auto-scaling rules, what the caveats are and what would be good additions to the service

Security & Data Announcements at Ignite 2017

A few weeks ago, Microsoft held another edition of its Ignite conference in Orlando, FL. After going through most of the announcements and digesting them I found that there were a couple of interesting ones in the security & data space. Let's have a closer look.

Azure Functions Proxies - Part 4 - A very lightweight API Management

After my first blog in this series about Azure Function Proxies, I received several questions related to API management. People were curious how to position Azure Function Proxies compared to Azure API Management.

Be a Functional Guide, not a Missionary

This post will expand on this subject in how I changed my way of writing code and how I became a functional guide.

Azure Functions Proxies - Part 3: Secure your API!

By creating a uniform API on top of several heterogenous service operations, we also simplify the security model for the API consumer.

F# Domain Model Validation with Active Patterns

In this post, we will look at how F#'s feature Active Patterns can help build a clear, declarative solution for the Validation of Domain Models. By using a Partial Pattern for each Business Rule, we can clearly see how the input is restricted to verify each rule.