• Retrieve status of your ADF pipelines via API

    Retrieve status of your ADF pipelines via API

    I was asked by a customer to create a dashboard in their custom solution for their different Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines, and the status of the pipeline runs with history. ADF isn’t the tech I work with from day to day, but I have occasionally created some integrations utilizing the nice built-in features. I…

  • Security hardening of your Azure PaaS services

    Security hardening of your Azure PaaS services

    Azure offers a flexible and powerful platform for deploying cloud applications, but with great power comes great responsibility 😉 A lot of Azure services are publicly accessible by default, which can leave you open to various security threats, and performing additional hardening is recommended. A prime example is Key Vault. It’s easy to think it’s…

  • Feature management with Azure App Configuration

    Feature management with Azure App Configuration

    In modern software development where rapid release cycles often is preferred, you need to have some tools to reduce the risk related to new deployments. In an ideal world you would release your new features one at the time, at a steady predictable pace, but this isn’t the case for a lot of developers and…

  • The basics of Azure App Configuration

    The basics of Azure App Configuration

    I’ve always thought there were some flaws in how teams manage configuration and secrets throughout an app’s lifecycle. It’s an area that’s often tricky to get right, and which typically increases in complexity over time. Azure Key Vault made huge progress in cleaning up the chaos of handling secrets, but I always felt the developer…