Today's modern applications are interacting with a larger variety of data stores than they have ever had to in the past. This is not to say that interacting with file storage is anything new, however, the options for storing files are ever-increasing…

I can not believe it, one year into this personal blogging adventure. It has been quite an amazing and uncomfortable journey taking this project on. When I was thinking about this over a year ago, one of the main drivers was to learn something new. I…

In taking a deeper dive into the world of Azure Functions, I noted that there is language support beyond .NET technologies. One of those supported languages, JavaScript! JavaScript does not particularly excite me, but I am interested in the ability…

With the scale and interaction of applications, event-driven architectures have proven why they are popular time and time again. Azure has several solutions for various event-driven architectures, the focus of this post is Azure Service Bus. So let's…

First a quick plug, this is just one post in a series of posts on Azure Functions. Check out the first post here. then, follow that one through all the content! If you have any amount of software development experience, there is likely a time where…

If you are just starting with an Azure Functions API implementation, first take a look at the first post to get caught up. In this post, we will take a look at a more traditional example of a web API implementation. A couple of things you will notice…

Implementing an Azure Function is the theme here, specifically creating a highly elastic web API quickly. But, what does highly elastic really mean? Initially, when this API is deployed to production there will be 0 users of it. Not so great, but…

This may not come as a surprise but there is no shortage of children born and raised these days. My wife and I are guilty of taking large amounts of pictures for all the memories too. We have years of digital images piling up all over the place. Some…

As a budding software engineer, I had always heard Azure around the office. But, I didn't quite understand what the offering was. Perhaps I didn't even know that a product was offered and it was just jargon people used to sound intelligent. I finally…

Your first step in this final post on Gatsby is to check out the previous posts to get caught up. Those posts can be found here, here and here. To get this templated content rolling first we will need to add some handy NPM packages and configuration…

Before releasing this hot new content, if you have not read my previous posts on Gatsby. Please, get caught up with us so you too can follow along. The posts can be found here and here. With the shell of a site, how do we go about modifying the…

Before we get going with this post if you have not read my previous post on Gatsby. Please, take a couple of minutes to get caught up. The post can be found here The goal of this post is to create a new Gatsby site, but we have to do some setup…