Medium has to be one of the most disjointed platforms I’ve ever used. Their import tool recently stopped working, inexplicably, simply throwing this error, with no further explanation: Without the import tool, it’s impossible to set a canonical link back to the original source of the content (which should definitely be your own blog) – risking duplicate content SEO penalties...
One of my clients came to me with a relatively simple requirement; they needed to take online payments for their fitness event photography business. The model is quite simple: There are several different competition dates per year. Competitors can purchase professional photos of themselves at a competition. Each competitor will have a ‘badge number’ to identify them. If purchased before the...
I’ve used Mediatr for some time, to reduce controller action bloat, and have spoken about it a few times, on how I use it to avoid the classic ‘xService’ pattern: Controller Action -> ‘Service’ -> Repo Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work with Azure Functions, and would like to be able to use Mediatr, as I can in ASP.net Core. Up until recently, this has...
While reviewing a client site, I recently noticed a small number of accounts had registered with spurious firstName and lastName values such as: firstName:You have 5 new messages from Patty: lastName: After some digging, it appeared these customers had legitimate email addresses, however had placed no orders, nor had they interacted with our site. Looking at the logs, these emails had received...
At ASOS, we’re currently migrating some of our message and event processing applications from Worker Roles (within classic Azure Cloud Services) to Azure Functions. A significant benefit of using Azure Functions to process our messages is the billing model. As an example, with our current approach, we use a Worker Role to listen to subscriptions to Azure Service Bus topics. These Worker Roles are...