Introduction

Databases are rarely glamorous. They do not have sleek animations and nobody has ever bragged about getting to nth normal form on their table at a dinner party. And yet, in modern systems, databases decide whether your platform scales or collapses.

This post is a guided ramble— err I mean an opinionated, …

The Issue

I have some long standing PowerBI reports that I use for summarizing project data. They use a variety of data sources, including Azure hosted SQL instances. I recently moved the Azure hosted SQL databases to a new instance as part of a major tidy up of my Azure resources. This of course caused my reports to …

React

React is not technically a framework—it’s a JavaScript library—but at this point arguing that distinction is kind of pointless. Created by Meta, React focuses on building user interfaces using reusable components. You describe what the UI should look like, and React handles how it updates, thanks to its …

During recent development for the oyster language by @HeckingGoose I was asked to assist with building a github action to deploy a Jekyll static pages site to a cloudflare project this was to allow for documentation to be referenced both within the linter for the language and in general.

Then after some initial …

The Issue

We have used SonarQube and the OWASP Dependency Checker Plugin for many years to perform analysis and vulnerability checking within our Azure DevOps Pipelines.

Recently, whilst picking up an old project for a new phase of development, I came across a couple of problems due to changes in both tools since the …

The Problem

I recently upgraded an Azure Function from .NET 8 to .NET 9, and at the same time migrated from the in-process worker to the isolated worker model. After the upgrade, my function that returned OkObjectResult started returning an empty JSON object {} instead of the expected data. …