Locking down Web App to Functions communications using subnets

Azure Functions are serverless Function as a Service.

Serverless compute typically offers less networking options since it does not run on dedicated compute.

Until recently, the only option to lock down access to a function was to lock down the function’s firewall to some public IPs. That isn’t always useful when the...

I moved my blog to GitHub pages!

A new year, a new decade, a new blogging platform for me!

I’ve been blogging for just shy of 10 years.

So far, I was hosting my blog on wordpress.com. I just moved to GitHub pages.

My blog is still here, hopefully the content is easier to read and my readers...

PyCon Canada 2019

I had the pleasure to attend the PyCon (Python Conference) Canada 2019 in Toronto a weekend ago (November 16-17).

In this article I wanted to give a quick review of the event from my perspective and then describe quickly the talks I went to.

Talks will be put on Pycon’s YouTube channel. I’ll...

Accessing Azure Key Vault from within Azure API Management

Today we look at a common although slightly advanced scenario with API Management: accessing Azure Key Vault from Azure API Management.

In an Enterprise, API Management service are often shared between teams. This means a lot of people might open it in the Portal and look at it. It also means that putting...

Tracing request in Azure API Management

Azure API Management (API-M) is an API Gateway solution.

It is quite easy to create an API in API-M, connect it to a back-end API and test it in the portal.

What happen when you test it from another client platform (e.g. Postman) and it fails? You have no visibility into what...