A collection of nerdy things done in nerdy ways to break, fix, and learn technology
This is part 7 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to successfully instrument an Azure function for OpenTracing to visualize the function call inside Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront). Back in part 1, we explored Azure Functions and Function Apps via the Azure portal. In part 2 we…
This is part 6 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to successfully integrate VMware’s Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront) with Azure and explore the additional insights gained for our Azure Function environment. Back in part 1, we explored Azure Functions and Function Apps via the Azure…
This is part 5 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to successfully deploy and update a simple Azure Function by placing code in an existing Azure Repo and use Azure Pipelines to automatically build and release the code changes into production. Back in part…
This is part 4 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to explore some differences in C# and C# script code that pop up when creating / editing Azure Functions in the Azure portal compared to leveraging VS Code which are foundational for getting Azure…
A fellow Redditor responded to this post sharing an experience with Azure Functions and Azure DevOps, and it got me to thinking. Several others also posted helpful replies. Since I was planning to dig into using some kind of code repository as well, why not give Azure DevOps a shot? That, dear reader, is where…
This is part 2 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service. The goal of this post is to use VS Code to deploy, test, and edit a simple Azure Function. Part 1 was a first step toward understanding and using Azure Functions. We created a Function App, added a function to it…
Since I had little to no exposure to playing with Azure outside of having an O365 subscription, I wanted to change that. Azure has the option to create a free account with access to a number of services, so I took the low risk plunge. I had intended to start with deployment of some basic…
Perhaps you’ve heard some buzz about Wavefront but don’t quite know what it is or how it can be used. I was in the same boat for a while, but then I saw a demo that blew my mind. Imagine a platform that could ingest time series data (or metrics) from various sources, retain all data…
A few weeks ago I was tasked with installing SuiteCRM for a proof of concept. Since the environment was primarily Windows, we went with a brand new Server 2012 R2 VM that was fully patched (environment had no license to use Server 2016). We tried following the documentation for SuiteCRM but found it to be less…