by Chad Michel | Apr 4, 2023 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
It is common to have files stored in Azure Blob storage, but we occasionally need to allow others to access those files. Sometimes we need to allow someone to upload a file; other times, we need to allow someone to download a file. Either way, we usually only want to...
by Chad Michel | Mar 30, 2023 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
Software projects often come down to transforming data from one format to another. A common situation involves extracting some data from HTML. This can occur when transferring data from a legacy system, and the best way to do it is screen scraping. There are a variety...
by Chad Michel | Mar 24, 2023 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
Azure Functions are very useful for hosting APIs in the cloud or for responding to asynchronous events in our cloud systems. Azure Functions also have a nice pricing model for startups; they can be priced on a per-consumption basis which can reduce monthly costs until...
by Chad Michel | Mar 17, 2023 | Software Development Tips & Tricks
The ability to upload files from HTML applications has existed for a long time. But in many modern scenarios, we are uploading very large files such as videos, and they are potentially uploading to a cloud blob technology such as Amazon S3. In this blog post, we are...
by Chad Michel | Mar 10, 2023 | Software Development Tips & Tricks, Tools
Azure Service Bus is an excellent glue technology that we can use to handle the communication between our subsystems. We often use Azure Service Bus as the “queue” between our subsystems, which works great. We usually build our backend systems using...