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One important aspect of any web application is its availability. Azure provides many tools that ensures your application is up and running, one of them being availability tests, which allow you to periodically check the availability of your application. You can also generate alerts should your web application become unavailable. You can configure availability tests and alerts in your Bicep templates, automating the entire process! In this article, we’ll create a Bicep template that provisions all the resources that we’ll need (the web app, Application Insights instance, action groups etc....

Azure Container Apps manages automatic horizontal scaling through declarative scaling rules. We can scale out our container apps based on a variety of different scalers. I recorded a video over the weekend covering how scaling works in Azure Container Apps, what KEDA is and how to set scaling rules within Azure Container Apps, using HTTP and Azure Queue storage scale rules as an example. If you prefer reading rather than watching, continue reading this post....

Azure SQL triggers for Azure Functions came into public preview for C# Functions last month. When you enable Change Tracking on a table in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance or SQL Server (yes, on-prem SQL Server), you can create a function that will be triggered every time a row is created, updated or deleted. In this article, we’ll dive into the details of SQL Trigger Functions, how Change Tracking works and how we can configure our Functions to listen to SQL Change Tracking....

In my job, I build a lot of samples that I share with customers to show them how things work. A lot of my customers are interested in Azure Container Apps, so I want to be able to provide them with samples with pre-built container images, without having to share the entire application source code as well (especially if I’ve got a bunch of basic microservices, that don’t really need to be included in the sample)....

I had a bit of time last week to do some Dapr learning, so I started to read the Dapr for .NET Developers e-book that’s available on our documentation (completely free by the way!). In one of the early chapters, the book outlines a tutorial that you can run locally to use service invocation to communicate between to two applications. Running locally is fairly straightforward, so I wanted to deploy the two applications as Container Apps, since it has support for Dapr in the platform....