A Look at Innovative Application Development Currently Underway
Here we look at three recent and current app development projects, their unique challenges, and the solutions we’ve developed for them.
A Host of Exciting New Features Arrive to Azure SQL
We use the range of Azure SQL in our apps and we are excited to see quite a lot of new features hit Azure SQL recently.
.NET 7 Support for Azure Functions in an Isolated Process – Public preview
Azure functions v4 now supports .NET 7 as runtime. This means you can build serverless applications using .NET 7 runtime while using the isolated process mode in Azure Functions v4.
Modern Serverless Development Part 3 – Business Logic with Azure Functions
After starting with the database, we moved on to how to expose this data and add our business logic. Our traditional approach would have been to use a Web API but Azure Functions offered a way to completely remove any infrastructure management and scale instantly. It also offered the potential to use micro billing and only pay for calls being made although at a performance cost – more on that later.