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I have found app.diagrams.net useful for doing architecture charts to document and explain how the different components in a distributed application work together..

When deploying code, it is important to be able to have an easy way to check that the deployment worked and that the version deployed is the one you published. This is particularly important when deploying by swapping (e.g. from stage to production): in my experience, the swaps work about ...

In the Azure portal, for Azure Functions, I've found that the Monitor section for individual subfunctions is not infrequently a bit buggy, in that it misses out some function runs, particularly for functions trigged by a timer. To check whether the function actually ran on a particular day, check the logs for the function: they are usually far more complete.

Here is the first version of an Excel VBA program to model the membership of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or any similar professional body). It may be freely used by others under the Creative Commons License. I have produced this in an attempt to help actuaries and others ...

If App Insights is not showing any data for a .NET 6 (or 5) web app, configure it within Visual Studio

User Administrator (or similar) role is needed for a registered app to change a user's passwords within Microsoft Graph.

It is very hard to find out what roles an app has been granted. When you add a role, document this within the notes section of the app's blade in the Azure portal. Microsoft ought to fix this.

I have been finding that on several pcs that I use, the free space on the C drive has been reducing constantly over time. The existing tools within Windows 10 didn't help as they don't make it easy to find out where the large files and folders are, and the ...

If you need to move thousands of Azure blobs, or very large ones (many GB) then you can either use AzCopy (a command line tool which you run locally), or if you want to do things programmatically, you can use the Microsoft Azure Storage Data Movement library. That library is ...

By default, Azure functions timeout after 10 minutes (or 30 minutes if running in an App Service Plan, or a Premium plan). The official documentation (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-host-json#functiontimeout) says that you can increase (or reduce) this by adding a functionTimeout value to host.json. But this doesn't seem to work for a ...