… a Microsoft Azure MVP who does cool things in Azure. I write (open source) code and I am an international speaker. Besides architecting cloud systems I try to write blog posts about whatever I encounter during my work from time to time. Among other things…🤓
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Azure Static Web Apps: UPDATE
After my two previous posts Azure Static Web Apps: a first look and Azure Static Web Apps: quirks & gotchas, let’s have an updated look at ASWA in this post.
Support for new languages 👩🏻💻 Announced at Microsoft Ignite this year, Blazor and C# APIs now supported in Azure Static Web Apps. This enables .NET developers to build and deploy full stack .NET applications with Static Web Apps.
Blazor support Since ASWA is a static hosting option, which means we don’t have a server component*, the Blazor support for ASWA means support for Blazor WebAssembly.
read moreServerless: Power Automate
It’s Serverless September! The one month a year in which we can keep talking about Serverless to our friends without feeling bad about it. So here goes … 🤓
In this post we’ll have a look at Power Automate. Because of the low code / no code nature of the service, it’s a great fit for citizen developers to automate (business) processes. And although I love to code, it’s good to also look at these other types of services that expand the Serverless universe.
read moreAzure Static Web Apps: quirks & gotchas
After playing around with Azure Static Web Apps (ASWA) for some time I found some quirks and gotchas. Of course Static Web Apps are still in preview. Most of these are probably because of that fact. Despite that, it might still be interesting to know about them. That way if you run into any of them, you’ll at least know it’s not you … 😉
🏭 Creating an Azure Static Web App It all starts when you want to create an ASWA: searching for it in the list of resources in the Azure portal doesn’t show it.
read moreAzure Static Web Apps: a first look
Although the two have a lot in common, even including parts of the name, there are a few very clear differences between Static website hosting in Azure Storage and Static Web Apps. We’ll have a look at what those differences are and take a first look at the most recent of the two: Static Web Apps.
Static website hosting in Azure Storage Static website hosting is a feature you can enable free of charge on a storage account.
read moreHosting your Hugo website on Azure - Part I
This post is part of a series on hosting your Hugo website on Azure. Keep an eye on this website for future articles.
Intro As you might have seen or read somewhere, I’ve migrated the previous version of my personal website, which was in WordPress, to the current one that is made in Hugo. One of the reasons for migrating away from WordPress was the fact that due to a vulnerability in one of the WordPress modules, spammers were able to use my account to send out a lot of mails.
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