Operations - Tom Kerkhove

Documenting ASP.NET Core Health Checks with OpenAPI

Health endpoints are essential for building operable platforms. ASP.NET Core provides built-in health checks nowadays, but there was no way to provide OpenAPI specs for them. Let's have a look at an easy fix

Azure Monitor

New Azure Logic Apps template for handling Azure Monitor Metric Alerts

You can now create an Azure Alert handler in Azure Logic Apps by using a new template. Here's how!

Scalability

Autoscaling your platform with Azure Monitor

TL;DR - Autoscaling is a great way to not only optimize your costs but also a flexible way of doing asynchronous processing.We will look at how Azure Monitor Autoscale allows you to define autoscaling rules, what the caveats are and what would be good additions to the service

Security

Using Azure Functions? Don't use Read-Only Resource Locks, for now.

It's a good practice to secure your Azure resources. One of the approaches to achieve this is by using Resource Locks. These allow you to add Read-Only or Delete locks on your resources to prevent somebody from changing or removing it. Unfortunately, I've noticed that Azure Functions doesn't really like