Azure Container Apps
There is a new container service available on Azure: Azure Container Apps. This is a totally managed serverless container service.
Azure SQL Database Serverless
Azure SQL Database Serverless is a compute tier that is fundamentally different to the classic provisioned tiers that we are used to within Azure SQL Database. This is best used for those databases that are ever-changing with unpredictable patterns.
Cloud Computing and Sustainable Transformation
A look at the green benefits of cloud computing and how to achieve sustainable transformation.
How Serverless Computing Can Benefit Your Business
Serverless computing is on an upward trend, so if you're considering it for your business, here's the benefits you should know.
Azure Files – New Data Protection Features
Recent enhancements of Azure Files provide improvements to multiple data protection strategies. Azure Files provides a systematic approach to ensuring your data is available, backed up, and recoverable, here are some recent announcements in this area:
How Can Ballard Chalmers Help You Move to the Cloud?
Ballard Chalmers is a Microsoft Gold Partner and Cloud Services Provider. Our focus, however, is less on the mainstream Cloud services such as Office 365, VoIP, Unified Comms and other SaaS cloud software platform such as Salesforce. Our focus is on custom cloud application development and systems integration.
Throttling Calls to Azure Functions from Azure Service Bus
One of the benefits of using Azure for Serverless work is not having to think about scaling for the most part. There is something built from Service Bus...
Modern Serverless Development Part 5 – Authentication with Azure Active Directory B2C
Azure Active Directory B2C (Business to Customer) is an identity management service that enables you to customise and control how customers sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles when using an application. Azure Active Directory B2C enables these actions while protecting the identities of your customers at the same time.
Modern Serverless Development Part 4 – Web Application Using Angular 5
Once the data and API layers were in place, the next area to focus on was the client-side. This is a browser-based application and we would use HTML, CSS and Javascript to render the API calls to the user. In fact, due to the nature of the application, the majority of the logic would be held in this layer, so it was a natural step to choose a framework that would enable quality testing and enable easier integration with additional modules.
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.