https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/tags/serverless/ Recent content in Serverless on Chris Harding https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- 0.147.7 en-us Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:13:03 +0000 https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/posts/what-i-found-playing-with-azure-functions/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:13:03 +0000 https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/posts/what-i-found-playing-with-azure-functions/ <p>As promised all the way back in my <a href="https://chrisharding.io/ndc-wrap-up" title="NDC Wrap-up" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">NDC Wrap-up</a> , I wanted to share my findings using Azure Functions on a recent project. As always, the story begins with a user requirement. The use case was to build a news monitor which would check a given list of sites and email through any new stories over the last day. My immediate thoughts turned to Azure Functions as a solution. Amongst other reasons, they are quick to spin up/code, would cost little-to-nothing to run and have built in support for timers, file monitors etc&hellip;</p> https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/posts/ndc-wrap-up/ Sat, 17 Feb 2018 19:51:56 +0100 https://418b6483.chrisharding-io.pages.dev/posts/ndc-wrap-up/ <p>I thought my first post, having been the inspiration for me to start this blog, should be a wrap up of NDC London. This is the second time I have now attended NDC and having moved to Westminster, the setting itself was a lot more majestic than last year&rsquo;s industrial backdrop of East London. If you’ve not been before, picture 3 days of talks by some of the coding world&rsquo;s rock stars interspersed with coffee, beer and the occasional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brainfuck</a> .</p>