Hi, I'm Rick (a.k.a. rickvdbosch) 👋🏻

Introduction Azure API Management is a hybrid, multicloud management platform for APIs across all environments. For more information on API Management, check out Microsoft Docs: About API Management. API Management (APIM) is an Azure service that enables you to manage APIs as first-class assets throughout their lifecycle. It consists of an API Gateway, a management plane and a developer portal. All these components are hosted in Azure and are completely managed by default.

The Betatalks Discord A few months ago we’ve started a Betatalks Discord server to build a community and enable our friends to discuss all the Betatalks content we put out there. Think about the Betatalks videos on YouTube, Betatalks live events and the most recent addition: Betatalks the podcast. To notify the corresponding Discord channels about new Betatalks videos or Betatalks the podcast episodes, I created Azure Logic Apps to check for new additions and post them to the webhook.

Azure .NET 5 Functions A lot has been said about .NET 5 support for Azure Functions. The most important news: it is now officially supported! 🥳 To enable running Azure Functions with .NET 5, the new Isolated Model enables Functions to run as an out-of-process language worker separate from the Azure Functions runtime. This way you’ll have full control over the Function’s dependencies on one hand, and new features like a middleware pipeline on the other.

After my two previous posts Azure Static Web Apps: a first look and Azure Static Web Apps: quirks & gotchas, let’s have an updated look at ASWA in this post. Support for new languages 👩🏻‍💻 Announced at Microsoft Ignite this year, Blazor and C# APIs now supported in Azure Static Web Apps. This enables .NET developers to build and deploy full stack .NET applications with Static Web Apps. Blazor support Since ASWA is a static hosting option, which means we don’t have a server component*, the Blazor support for ASWA means support for Blazor WebAssembly.

It’s Serverless September! The one month a year in which we can keep talking about Serverless to our friends without feeling bad about it. So here goes … 🤓 In this post we’ll have a look at Power Automate. Because of the low code / no code nature of the service, it’s a great fit for citizen developers to automate (business) processes. And although I love to code, it’s good to also look at these other types of services that expand the Serverless universe.