Azure Functions on Isaac Levin

Storing GitHub Traffic with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 11:15:58 -0400

Frustrated by GitHub Insights

As an owner of a handful of large public repos for my job, one of the things that I care about is knowing the traffic to the repos to get an understanding of visibility. GitHub has this amazing feature, called GitHub Insights , which allows you to see some of this data, however it is capped at a date range of 14 days in the past. I am not sure on the long-term goals of Insights, but if that cap stays, it will frustrate folks, some of them very well known folks .

Update My Blog Via Email with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:00:59 -0400

Starting with a Manual, Multi-Step Process

I have [blogged](/post/building-blog) about the changes I made to streamline my site architecture and continue to work on ways to improve it. One thing that I did a month ago was replace the static page that was my [speaking page][/speaking] and make it more dynamic. Before whenever I had a new speaking gig, I would go into my repo and edit the HTML, EVERY... TIME.... I quickly became not a fan of that, so I started to look into options that were less cringey. I discovered in Hugo you can have data-driven pages using a source like json to house content. What I did was build a [shortcode](https://gohugo.io/content-management/shortcodes/) to read data from a json file and output it in a format I wanted, in this case, an HTML table.

Building a Simple Contact Form with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:25:05 -0400

An Easy Solution for an Easy Task

I write about Azure Functions over and over again because they are the perfect solution for what I am trying to do, small little things that I don’t want to spin up a larger unnecessary app to do it. That along with the fact they just run and go away, the price point for the things I do make it basically free.

I recently remapped my blog to a static website hosted in Azure Blob Storage. During the process, I decided that it would be nice to have a way for people to contact me if they wanted to (no idea why they would). I looked at some options around contact form services and I was not really impressed with the free options and didn’t want to create some account to manage. Then I had a thought, why not have an Azure Function that I could http post to and sent an email from there, easy peasy. And boy was it!

Azure Media Services with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:25:05 -0400

New Version of Azure Media Services

I have been a fan of Azure Media Services for a long time. I worked with a customer roll it our to their organization a few years back and immediately saw the opportunity to enable a company with the ability to wholly own their video content and host/play the media inside their organization. Previously, the SDK that interfaced with Azure Media Services, consisted of 2 External Packages

Using Entity Framework Core with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:14:48 -0400

Dot Net Standard Support in Azure Functions!

I have talked about Azure Functions before, but up until this point, I felt like it was limited to cases where you needed to interact with a database. One prime example being listening on an Ftp folder and tracking the files in a database. You would do this in the past don’t get me wrong, but I wanted to use the newest stuff with the newest stuff, and using an older mechanism to interact with a database with something as cool as Azure Functions bummed me out. Things have changed! Now Azure Functions have support for Dot Net Standard 2.0, which opens up a ton of opportunities, one of which being able to leverage Entity Framework Core to interact with data.

Polling for Data in Reddit with Azure Functions

isaac@isaaclevin.com (Isaac Levin) — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:15:58 -0400

Being Repitive is not fun

Ever since I can remember I have loved to automate things. Whether it was taking toys and mounting them on remote control car parts or convincing my brother that the show I wanted to watch at a particular time was far better than anything he wanted to watch. I guess those things aren’t really automation rather more like a combination of laziness and and ability to make a little effort so something wasn’t as contrived the next time… WAIT, ISN’T THAT AUTOMATION?!?!?! Anyway, I have always enjoyed doing things that make my life easier even if I have to do some work to make it happen. One of those things has always been automating things related to the web.