Jamstack: Azure Serverless Functions App With React

Jamstack: Azure Serverless Function App With React

Matt McCandless Architecture, Articles, Azure, Development Technologies & Tools, Node.js, React Leave a Comment

A new trend of creating applications is emerging called Jamstack. No, this isn’t slapping together your favorite flavor of jelly (grape is the best) with peanut butter and two pieces of bread. The intent is an architecture that is faster, more secure, and easier to scale. It focuses on pre-rending and decoupling. This way, the solutions created are more reliable and resilient than before.

Pre-rendering comes by the way of using a static website via a CDN for high availability and security. No more serving your React app via web server like we’ve become accustomed to. It reduces cost and complexity by eliminating the regular maintenance and configuration of traditional servers.

Also, the idea of APIs and the ability to move them to things like Serverless functions creates more cost savings, elimination of traditional servers, and use of features only when they are requested. For more information, check out the Serverless website.

How to build an Attestation Page using Microsoft Power Apps

Chris Vaught Articles, Azure, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial 1 Comment

The purpose of this demo is to show you how easy it is to leverage Power Apps to quickly create an internal Attestation page. Power Apps can easily be tailored to meet your company’s design guidelines and delivered to your platform of choice, individualized, and tied to complex workflows leveraging the tools you use.

This post is organized into three, fairly simple steps. I tried to break it down into minute, succeeding tasks, so it’s easy to follow along. Without further ado, let’s jump right into it!

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[Video] Serverless Framework: Concepts + Code Walkthrough | Deploying To AWS, Azure & Multi-Cloud

Keyhole Software AWS, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Educational Event, TypeScript, Videos Leave a Comment

A 55-minute dive into the “Serverless” framework, an open-source tool that aims to simplify building, packaging, and deploying serverless applications across multiple cloud providers and platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.

Batching Excel Files in Azure to Order DME

Batching Excel Files in Azure to Order DME

Zach Gardner Architecture, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Tutorial Leave a Comment

The steps described in this blog post allow for the adding of a Logic App on Azure to append rows to an Excel file. It took a lot of trial, and mostly error, to figure out how to describe what I wanted in the way that the Logic App would understand. Hopefully, the steps that I outlined in this blog post will save others the time it took me to come up with them.

Bridging the Gap: Azure App Insights to On-Prem Elastic Stack

Zach Gardner Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial 1 Comment

Recently, while working for a large healthcare client in New York, I ran into an interesting problem that had slim literature on how to solve it.

Our application is primarily on-prem, but it does leverage Azure for a few functions that are easier to solve in a cloud-native environment. We wanted to be able to monitor those functions using the same Elastic Stack that we use to monitor our on-prem application.

I was tasked with building a bridge between where our functionality logs to in Azure (App Insights), and getting that securely back into our Elasticsearch instance that powers our Elastic Stack.

This blog post will detail the solution I landed on. I hope it will be useful to others that need to solve a similar problem!