[Update 08 April 2017: The Auth0 post Navigating RS256 and JWKS describes RS256 in more detail, including an endpoint for accessing your Auth0 Public key] This post covers the following user story and appears as a guest post on the Auth0 blog. As a user, I want to log into […]
Using reactive streams on serverless with cyclejs, xstream and Azure Functions
This post originally appeared on my accessibility blog – Opening Accessibility] [ Update 2016-10-23 the code is now in the cyclejs community repo] During development of my latest SaaS product, Brian, I’ve settled on a couple of key architectural decisions. For the Frontend I’m using Reactive programming (RP) with streams […]
Azure options for serving static web content
A common requirement for logic implemented in Azure Functions is to provide a UI created in web content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). Or to put it another way, you may have a Single Page App (SPA) with it’s backend built using Functions or other BaaS and 3rd party APIs. This content is usually purely static […]
Serverless Schmerverless: what do we mean by “serverless”?
[Update 25 Jan 17: I just had to add the image from Swardley] The debate about the name “serverless has calmed down a tad but may never completely go away. However, we need to move on and so I thought I should state what we have in mind here at […]
Serverless Sessions from Microsoft Connect(); // 2016
Microsoft have certainly hit on a winning formula with the annual Connect developer event. This year, 2016, was even better than last year, with new technologies, some of which where promised in 2015 bore fruits. The first day of Keynotes was full of announcements of cool new tools and services. Day 2 […]
Azure Functions comes out of Preview
Congratulations to the Azure Functions Team as Functions joins LogicApps in General Availability (GA). That means Functions is now officially ready for use in real, mission critical applications. So now Microsoft offers both FaaS and WaaS serverless services, with some unique features. Yochay Kiriaty Principal Program Manager, Azure Platform explains […]
A HTML nanoserver
There’s nothing complex about the external view of what a HTML server does. In response to a HTTP GET (say) it returns some HTML in the body, at least a single header of ‘Content-Type’ to identify the HTML format, and a status code, eg 200 for success. This is easily […]
Azure Serverless: Addressing the missing pieces
tl;dr; Benny Baur recently wrote about some of the missing pieces in Serveless provision, partly in response to issues raised at the recent ServerlessConf London. As Benny works with AWS, I thought it would be good to see how the Azure Serveless offerings of Functions and Logic Apps stack up […]
Videos introducing Functions
The Azure Functions team were at the ServerlessConf London in Oct 2016 and gave 3 excellent presentations that highlight the features of Azure Functions. Real World Serverless Applications with Azure Functions – Yochay Kiriaty The making of Azure Functions – Chris Anderson DevOps for Serverless Applications – Yochay Kiriaty and […]
Why Serverless with Azure?
Serverless Architecture is a getting a lot of interest right now but at first it can be a little difficult to get a clear understanding of what exactly it is and is not. Azure is a large and growing collection of services and it can be hard to work out […]