DigitalOcean App Platform – Security Concerns
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by James
3y ago
While recently reviewing my options for hosting a new project (SPA, API, database – pretty stock stuff) I took a good look at DigitalOcean. With the recent addition of their managed App platform their hosting solution is simple to use, competitively priced, and very appealing for simple apps. I did some basic experimentation and had a dev system running in it for a while and it all seemed pretty good. However as I looked to deploy a production environment I came across what, to me, is a glaring issue. The App Platform can only communicate with a Managed Database if you disable the “trusted sou ..read more
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Azure Functions Performance – Update on EP1 Results
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by James
3y ago
In yesterdays post comparing Azure Functions to AWS Lambda the EP1 plan was a notable poor performer – to the extent I wandered if it was an anomalous result. For context here is yesterday’s results for a low load test: I created a new plan this morning with a view to exploring the results further and I think I can provide some additional insight into this. You shouldn’t have to “warm” a Premium Plan but to be sure and consistent I ran these tests after allowing for an idle / scale down period and then making a single request for a Mandelbrot. The data here is based around a test making 32 co ..read more
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Comparative performance of Azure Functions and AWS Lambda
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by James
3y ago
I was recently asked if I would spend some time comparing AWS Lambda with Azure Functions at a meetup – of course, happily! As part of that preparing for that I did a bit of a dive into the performance aspects of the two systems and I think the results are interesting and useful and so I’m also going to share them here. Test Methodology Methodology may be a bit grand but here’s how I ran the tests. The majority of the tests were conducted with SuperBenchmarker against systems deployed entirely in the UK (eu-west-2 on AWS and UK South on Azure). I interleaved the results – testing on AWS, testi ..read more
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Who is Azure for?
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by James
3y ago
As I’ve worked with a wider variety of cloud vendors in recent months I’m becoming increasingly unsure who Azure is a good fit for. For simple projects (lets say an SPA, an API and a database) you now have services like Digital Ocean which will deploy your app direct from GitHub and let you set up a database and CDN with a few lines of code or couple of button pushes in the portal. The portals are super easy to use and focused. Digital Ocean can also be cheap. If you’re a developer focused on code and product its about as simple as it gets. Azure has some of this but its far less streamlined ..read more
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Thoughts on the .NET Foundation
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by James
3y ago
The .NET Foundation Annual Survey is currently open (please do participate) and I made some comments on Twitter about how I thought the Foundation was operating “back to front” and consumer first with OSS. Claire Novotny reached out and asked me for specifics and so I thought I’d try and capture them in a format a bit more useful than a 280 character tweet. Before I launch into this I’ll start by saying that firstly these are just my opinions – I have no special insight. They are observations meant in good spirit. And secondly: I don’t think anybody involved in the Foundation is malicious or h ..read more
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The State of Azure Deployment
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by James
3y ago
(I’m happy to engage with anyone about MS / Azure about this but I don’t think their is any new feedback here sadly – its a “more of the same” thing) This last week I needed to deploy a greenfield system to Azure for the first time in a good while and so it seemed like a good point to reflect on the state of Azure deployment. tl;dr – it was like pulling teeth. The simple is fairly typical – it uses a variety of Azure components to allow users to access a React (Fable) based website that talks to APIs (.NET 5) and a PostgreSQL database and a simple blob storage based key/document store to allo ..read more
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Looking for folk to help
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by James
3y ago
I’m currently taking a bit of a break from regular work. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have a deadline or an imminent sense of expectation – I’ve been digging on the coal face of professional software development almost constantly for 27 years. I’m lucky to be in a position, through hard work over those 27 years and circumstance, that I don’t need to find paid work “tomorrow” and so I’m taking a little time out to recharge, scratch a few itches, complete a couple of side projects, and figure out what I want to do next. I’m a week in and one of the things that dawned on me is that I’m ..read more
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Pholly
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by James
3y ago
While working on a fun little F# side project over the Christmas break I had the need for a couple of resilience policies. I had a Google but couldn’t really find much in the space and what I was really looking for was an elegant way to use the battle hardened Polly with my F# code. It wasn’t critical so I parked it and moved on. The itch kept, errr, itching and so I came back to it this last week looking to build an expressive F# feeling wrapper for Polly and the result of that is Pholly (hat tip to Scott Wlaschin for the name). So far it includes support for the three reactive Polly policies ..read more
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2020 Review
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by James
3y ago
I think the most generous thing you could say about 2020 is that it was strange – nevertheless there have been some highs and lows and so, in true narcissistic fashion, are some of my personal high lights and low lights as a middle aged grumpy bastard working in tech. F# A real highlight for me. Over 2019 I’d started to become ever more frustrated by C# with this exciting numbered list of issues bothering me the most: I increasingly felt I was “fighting” the language – its object oriented roots support patterns we’ve mostly decided are unhelpful to us now and while C# has evolved its still he ..read more
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Integrating Pulumi Stack Output with GitHub Actions
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by James
3y ago
As part of migrating Performance for Cyclists to AWS I’ve been exploring the use of Pulumi to manage the infrastructure running through GitHub Actions when I commit code (targetting dev) or to live (when I create a release). To do this I’m using the Pulumi GitHub Action available in the marketplace. This has been fairly straightforward if a little verbose compared to Farmer (which I use to do the same with Azure) – with one exception: using a Pulumi Stack Output in a subsequent GitHub Action step. For example passing the URL of a provisioned application load balancer on to an acceptance test s ..read more
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