I’m excited to share about a new project for Snowflake published to Snowflake Labs: SnowCLI — a developer CLI for creating apps 🎉! SnowCLI provides a developer interface to speed up the workflow across Snowflake, Snowpark, and the Streamlit private preview. …

One of the most powerful features of Snowflake is the ability to write code and functions to run alongside your data. …

Let’s chat about ordering. It’s one of my favorite topics, and something I’ve blogged about extensively before. …

One of the exciting developments from Build this year was support for dependency injection in Azure Functions. This means you can register and use your own services as part of functions. While you’ve been able to use Entity Framework Core in the past, the pairing with dependency injection makes it…

Performance and throughput considerations — I have this conversation about twice a week. Someone has decided they want to take advantage of the benefits of serverless Azure Functions for an upcoming project, but when starting to lay out the architecture a question pops up: “Should we be using Azure Event Hubs, Queues, or Event Grid?” …

Managing environments and versions — If interested in earlier pieces of this blog series, you can read part 1 (unit tests) or part 2 (automated builds and release) One of the most frequent conversations I get when working with business on serverless architectures is if I have any recommendations on how to manage environments. There…

Continuous integration and automated builds — This is part 2 of a series around testing, continuous integration/continuous deployment, and DevOps for serverless Azure Functions. You can read part 1 on unit tests here. For this example we have a simple Azure Function that can detect odd or even numbers, the next step is to make sure…

Unit tests for Azure Functions — A few weeks ago Matthew Henderson was preparing a talk at ServerlessDays London on security. While going over the content with me he educated me on the very interesting theory of Risk Compensation. Risk compensation describes the phenomena where we are less careful when we perceive less risk. …

How to avoid missing a message — Event processing is one of the most common scenarios in serverless and Azure Functions. A few weeks ago I wrote about how you can process events in order with functions, and for this blog I wanted to outline how you can create a reliable message processor so you avoid losing…