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  1. Azure & Cloud

    Azure Functions timer triggers that run late, twice or not at all, and how to prove a run

    A timer-triggered function has no caller to notice when it does not run. This article sets out what Microsoft documents about schedules, time zones, missed occurrences and retries, and shows how to prove each run, and each absence, in Application Insights.

    ·8 min read

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  2. Azure & Cloud

    What a slot swap promises, and what it abandons

    A deployment slot swap warms the new version, moves production traffic to it without dropping requests, and keeps the old version one swap away. It does not protect the work running on the old instances, stop timers and WebJobs running in both slots, carry the identity and some settings across, or undo on the way back what the new version wrote.

    ·12 min read

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  3. Governance & security

    A cookie banner you can prove, with Azure Tables and Functions

    The banner you copy from a vendor can itself be a tracker. Build your own instead, with no third parties, and the hard part turns out not to be the banner: it is keeping the proof that the person consented. Here is all of it, from the browser to the Azure Table, step by step.

    ·7 min read

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