Blog posts tagged with azure

Azure functions help carry the load

Notes from colleagues about the client contact

Using externally-hosted functions to do data crunching and other processor-intensive tasks.

By converting processor-intensive tasks to externally-hosted functions, we took load off the main server - keeping the system responsive and functional while reducing costs.

Identify users the Azure way

How we set up an Azure-hosted web application to authenticate and identify our users

Migrating a bespoke company intranet to Azure meant we could no longer authenticate users' domain credentials in IIS. Luckily, Azure has a good API for authenticating and identifying users.

Migrating a Coldfusion application to Microsoft Azure - setting up a data source

Setting up an encrypted data source for Azure SQL services

Setting up a Coldfusion data source that points to an Azure SQL database is a bit more complicated than usual.