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.

Azure Function Proxies - Part 2: Easily enable hybrid integration.

Connecting cloud services to on premises API's can be quite challenging. Depending on your setup, there are multiple options available. The most enterprise grade options reside on the network level: ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN. Another option is leveraging Azure App Service Hybrid Connections, which gives you a very simple way to connect to on premise resources on the TCP level, in a firewall-friendly and high available manner. This blog will demonstrate how you can consume an on premises API via Azure Function Proxies, without any coding at all.

Property-Based Testing with C#

“Property-Based Testing”, ever heard of it? It’s a very popular topic in the functional community. The opposite of this approach is the well-known “Example-Based Testing”. People think in examples and that’s why it’s so popular; also in the non-functional community. This is/was the way we write/wrote tests.“Given a static, constant example; the output should be this”But is that the best we can do?