The Problem

About 18 months ago I built up a road bike ago using an L-Twoo GRX wireless electronic groupset, and I have been very pleased with it.

I planned to ride it this weekend, after not using it for about three weeks, so I charged the battery that drives both the front and rear derailleurs, but stupidly did not …

The Problem

As a consultant I am issued a variety of laptops by clients in addition to my own Lenovo X1 Carbon. I am currently using is a Dell Latitude 7450, and it’s WIFI has been causing me problems. It is very slow, maybe 2Mb/s when other devices on the same WIFI network are seeing 200 to 250 Mb/s.

I had been …

I am currently doing some Azure deployment work using Azure DevOps. The target Azure configuration has a mixture of publicly accessible resources and private ones only available via a vNet and private endpoints.

Whilst getting this deployment setup I made a mistake and configured an ADO pipeline job to use an ADO self …

The other day I ran into one of those Azure deployment problems that looks reasonable right up until you understand which service is actually making the call.

I had provisioned an Azure Key Vault with enabled_for_template_deployment set to true. I was familiar with this setting from working with Bicep and ARM …

Problem Space

When deploying Azure solutions with Infrastructure as Code, we often create role assignments as part of the deployment. For example, a Bicep deployment may give a Function App’s managed identity access to a Key Vault, storage account, or Service Bus namespace.

It is easy to focus on the role being …

Overview

WEBSITE_CONTENTSHARE is an app setting used by Azure Functions and Logic Apps Standard (which runs on the Functions runtime) alongside WEBSITE_CONTENTAZUREFILECONNECTIONSTRING to identify the Azure Files share the app uses for its content.

The important thing to call out up front: you don’t always need …