In today's hyperconnected world, businesses are inundated with vast amounts of data streaming in from a multitude of sources at unprecedented speeds. From customer interactions to machine-generated telemetry data, the sheer volume and velocity of this data present both opportunities and challenges for organisations...

Context

A common requirement often encountered when implementing a system of record (SOR) is to allow near real-time dissemination of a record change to disparate systems. One example of a SOR is customer relationship management (CRM), which is responsible for maintaining records about an organisation’s customers.

Introduction Overview

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is Azure's cloud ETL service for scale-out serverless data integration and data transformation. It has a code-free UI with many maintenance-free connectors, allowing it to be maintained by non-coders. No matter how much or little code is needed for the ADF, it is still...

Introduction

As part of consulting engagements, it is common that customers ask for guidance on the different authentication and authorisation approaches available on API Management and how these approaches meet their security needs while offering support to existing legacy API clients. While many people now know...

Introduction

My first introduction to Azure Bicep involved creating a large repository of Azure Bicep deployment templates. I was able to see firsthand the benefits of using Bicep to simplify Azure deployments. Recently I have utilised Azure Data Factory (ADF) for integrating a new enterprise solution. It is an...

With the recent release of GPT-4, many people are voicing concern about the impact of AI on the job market. A Goldman Sachs report concluded that up to two-thirds of white-collar jobs are open to partial automation through AI. They argue that this is overall good news for global productivity.

Programming is forecast...

“Cloud Migration Factory increases the velocity of migration and helps provide discovery & planning guidelines with architectural best practices, automated tools & templates, collaboration with migration experts & different subject matter experts, with complete governance & reporting around all the different...

The Experiment

I recently tried an experiment using OpenAI's ChatGPT to design a simple OpenAPI specification. My aim was to exercise the following workflow which reflects my typical manual design process:

• Start with a JSON Schema for a simple Business Entity comprising basic attributes and relationships with people...

Introduction

On November 10, 2020, Microsoft released .NET 5. But at that point in time, the current version of the Azure Functions runtime host (version 3.x) couldn’t support any code targeting .NET 5. That’s because version 3 of the runtime utilises NET Core 3.1, and therefore all the functions you code had to...

Overview

In the previous posts, I talked about different scenarios of deploying a Function App with a Consumption Plan and an App Service Plan in a network-locked architecture. In this post, I will cover a different architectural solution using App Service Environment v3. I will go through the complete deployment...