Finding a VM Image Reference, Publisher & SKU

Automation is great.

I love to script solutions in Azure.

But most of the time, that automation started with me fumbling and trialing different approaches in the portal.  Once I got something around what I wanted I’ll automate.

I suspect you do the same thing.

This is why today we’re going...

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...