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2023 - yet another annual review [Editorial]

I just published my personal #review of #2023 on my #blog #Editorial

Leaving dormakaba AG The first two months of the year I spent with preparing my leaving of dormakaba AG at the end of February. As I made several templates and tools to use those templates for the interfaces we wrote, I needed to document a lot for my remaining colleagues there. Other than that, I was still investing time into my #CASBAN6 project sporadically. New role at Galliker Transport…

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#CASBAN6 – How to create a facade to manage Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions

I just blogged: #CASBAN6 – How to create a facade to manage Azure Blob Storage with Azure Functions #Azure #AzureFunctions #AzureDev #AzureBlob #Blob #Storage #API #dotNET #csharp #OpenAPI #Swagger #security

Why the facade? You might wonder why I am creating this facade to manage file uploads to the Azure Blob Storage. There are two main reasons. The first one is that I wanted to have a common endpoint for all interactions with Azure, also for file handling. The second one is security. The function app already has a high level of security by enforcing a Microsoft account, which is equally needed for…

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#CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions

I just blogged: #CASBAN6: Add a Swagger (OpenAPI) page to Azure Functions #Swagger #SwaggerUI #OpenAPI #serverless #Azure #AzureFunctions #API #documentation #testing

Why? Adding a Swagger page to any API project (not only with Azure Functions) is nowadays one of the most common steps. Implementing the OpenAPI specification makes your API easily testable during development, and in the end, it provides an interactive documentation page to your API consumers. While these are the major advantages, you can go deeper into that topic on the OpenAPI website.…

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#CASBAN6: Implementing the API endpoints with Azure Functions

I just blogged: #CASBAN6: Implementing the #API endpoints with #AzureFunctions

After my last post, we have the base implementation ready to be used for our endpoints. As we already know, our endpoints will feature the CRUD pattern to interact with the endpoints. Please note: the code on GitHub is already a few steps ahead and may look a bit different from what I am posting here (mostly due to the OpenApi attributes, but you will be able to follow along). I will use the…

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#CASBAN6: Function base class (and an update to the DTO models)

I just blogged: #CASBAN6: Function base class (and an update to the DTO models) #Azure #AzureFunctions #Serverless #DTO #dotNET #CSharp

After we have been setting up our Azure Function project last time, we are now able to create a base class for our Azure functions. The main goal is to achieve a common configuration for all functions to make our life easier later on. CRUD defintion Our API endpoints should provide us a CRUD (Create-Read-Update-Delete) interface. Our implementation will reflect this pattern as follows: A…

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#CASBAN6: Setting up an Azure Functions project for the API

I just blogged: #CASBAN6: Setting up an #AzureFunctions project for the #API #dotNET #Azure #Functions #serverless

Now that we have our Entity Framework project in place and our DTO mappings ready, it is finally time to create the API for our blogging engine. I am using Azure Functions for this. Out-of-Process vs. In-Process Azure Functions can be run in-process or in an isolated process. The isolated project decouples the function app from the underlying process, which enables additional features like…

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My annual review (2022) [Editorial]

I just published my traditional annual #review for #2022, with a short #outlook into #2023 #blogging #yearinreview

In the beginning of 2022, I would never have thought of such a turbulent year. After all, we went more or less over the pandemic, and there were at least some positive signs that were sparking some hope. Pretty fast, the year turned into a memorable one, but for very ugly reasons. Ukraine war Russia began a war in Ukraine. We all have to battle the consequences of this war. Because of the…

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#CASBAN6: the DTOs and mappings

I just blogged: #CASBAN6: the DTOs and mappings #dotNET #DTO #mapping

We already have created our database and our entities, so let’s have a look at how we bring the data to our API consuming applications. If we recap, our entity models contain all the relations and identifiers. This could lead to some issues like circular references during serialization and unnecessary data repetition. Luckily for us, there is already a solution for this—it’s called data transfer…

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