In my last post, I blogged about how to use Artillery to run Load Tests from Azure Container Instances. Artillery is easy to use and Azure Container Instances offer a low cost and easy way to run containerized load tests. If cloud-based load tests are cheap and a great way to test your architecture, how do you get the most out of them?
Recently, Microsoft annouced that they’re going to be abandoning support for Visual Studio Cloud-based Load Tests. Creating tests through Visual Studio wasn’t trivial, but it was cloud-based and there was no need to provision dedicated test harnesses. I have found...
Creating Azure functions is easy. Managing them can be a challenge. Much like microservices, functions can get problematic to maintain when having multiple environments. This is where Infrastructure as Code can help. Although I don’t particularly enjoy creating Azure Resource...
Azure functions are cute. You can fire up the online function editor from the Azure portal and start hacking away using many languages. In my case, I’d like to start writing some C# and being able to run it and...
The more time I spend writing ASP.NET Core applications, the more I begin to experience how extensible it is. Besides first-class usage of dependency injection, the middleware is one of my favorite features. Understanding how middleware works, will give you...
Azure provides wonderful PaaS options for developers, especially those using .NET. In many cases, services like Azure Service Bus, require connection strings and secured tokens used to authenticate our applications. If you want to make your repository publicly accessible, it...
