Articles tagged azure-function
Build a Simple Microservice with C# Azure Functions
I’ve always liked microservices because they embrace small, well-encapsulated building blocks. They mitigate deployment hell by treating each component of a software system as its own product, with versions, testing, and releases. A microservice is “micro” because of the narrow scope of its functionality, not necessarily because the length of its code is very short. A microservice’s functionality, so long as it’s kept to the limited scope, can go as deep as required by the...
Build Your First Azure Function in Visual Studio Code
Inevitably it happens. You go to one of those bars that has three trillion beers on tap, and you stare hopelessly at the wall of taps trying to decide what to order. Panic no more! Hop Roulette is here to save you from embarrassment when the bartender asks, “What’ll it be?” Hop Roulette is a simple Azure Function that returns a random beer from an API. What use is this? It gives me a fun...