Recurrent serverless batch job with Azure Batch

Most solutions have recurrent batch jobs, e.g. nightly / end-of-month batch jobs.

There are many services we can leverage in Azure to run those.  In this article, we are going to explore a service that has “Batch” in its name:  Azure Batch.

Azure Batch is typically positioned...

Azure Databricks - Getting Started

Apache Spark is rising in popularity as a Big Data platform.  It exists on this accelerated timeline for such an impactful technology.

Think about it:

• 2009, started as a Berkeley’s University project.
• 2010, open sourced
• 2013, donated to Apache Foundation
• 2014, becomes...

Security with API: OAuth, token-based access vs key-based access

Let’s consider security with APIs, i.e how to securely identify the caller.

There are two authentication methods quite popular in the cloud to secure APIs:

1. Key-based access
2. OAuth, or token-based access in general

Let’s compare them.

Key-Based

By key-based we mean...

Azure Functions HTTP – Authorization Levels

In a past article, we looked at Serverless compute in Azure in general and Azure Functions specifically.

In this article we wanted to focus on Azure Function triggered by HTTP requests and the different options we have to authenticate:

• Anonymous
• Function
• Admin
• System
• User

Those are...

Serverless compute with Azure Functions - Getting Started

I meant to write about Azure Functions & serverless computing for quite a while now.  So here we go.

This entry is meant as a “getting started” entry with pointers to documentation and general discussion.  We’ll dive deeper in future articles.

Serverless

What is serverless computing?