Part 2: Let’s go with containers This is the second of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. This time it is about trying to create windows containers with a massive setup of a proprietary piece of software. Part 1: Analysis & Design Part 2: (this one) Let’s […]
Tag: Azure
AutofacOnFunctions: New logging capabilities
After having released version 1 of AutofacOnFunctions some days ago, there are some new changes and a fitting new nuget package as well. Logging in Azure Functions When I started with Azure Functions I was concerned about many things. I did like the approach to be able to use attributes to trigger a function, a well […]
AutofacOnFunctions: version 1 released with .net framework support
Finally version 1 of AutofacOnFunctions is available! Find the code on github. Have a look onto newest nuget package. Have a look onto the archive to support former versions. Lots of changes Due to the ongoing development of Azure Functions, there had been a lot of changes to the code. Additionally, the first version of AutofacOnFunctions […]
AutofacOnFunctions: Named services support, fixes for breaking changes
A new version of Azure Functions was just released, called 1.0.19. While there are quite some changes in this release, like the fact that Function Apps must have exactly one single language and WebJobs had been updated to 3.0.0-beta8, there are some breaking changes. For complete information about the changes see the announcement. Breaking Changes Azure Functions Version […]
Azure Functions Dependency Injection: Autofac On Functions nuget Package
When starting to play around with Azure Functions, the lack of dependency injection support was pretty annoying. To overcome that issue I created a small library, Autofac On Functions, based on Azure Functions 1.x. Unfortunately it is not possible to generate a nuget package from these sources. Azure On Function with nuget package available Yesterday I started to […]
Azure Function Dependency Injection with AutoFac: Autofac on Functions
Autofac on Azure Functions. Azure still keeps evoling a lot. The next new and hot thing is Azure Functions. What makes Azure Function attractive? In the past six months I did have a look onto Azure Functions more often, but was on one hand pretty busy with a move to a different company and on the […]
Bad Image Exception on Azure Service Fabric Unit Tests
I just experienced this System.BadImageFormatException. Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Fabric, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. The unit test shall test a Azure Service Bus connection. Yes, sure it is a unit test and the service bus connection actually should […]
Azure Service Bus: Massive count of listeners and senders
We recently went away from Azure Cloud Queue to migrate to Azure Service Bus. There had been a lot of reasons. One of the most important facts had been that we chosen Azure Cloud Queue due to performance. When we started decvelopment in a project with that technology middle of 2014, this was true. Let’s say […]
The natural borders of Azure Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus
As stated in The natural border of azure cloud queue scalability we experienced pretty relevant issues with Cloud Queues. We believed we solved the issues, though. As a result of too heavy usage of exactly one Storage Account, we devided to split the traffic – which actually really had too much to do – to several accounts to balance the work load. The […]
The natural borders of Azure cloud queue scalability
UPDATE: Maybe you are interesting how the story went on. Have a look at Natural borders of Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus. Programming for the cloud is always experimental. This can be quite scary when unexpected things happen in a production environment. Why? It is pretty hard to understand all the environment details plus […]