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  • Using Google Sheets and Azure Functions as a headless CMS

    Using Google Sheets and Azure Functions as a headless CMS

    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…

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  • Using Mediatr with Azure Functions

    Using Mediatr with Azure Functions

    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…

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  • Reliably Processing Azure Service Bus Topics with Azure Functions

    Reliably Processing Azure Service Bus Topics with Azure Functions

    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…

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