Monsters Weekly 168 - Microsoft.FeatureManagement and Azure App Configuration

In this episode, we close off our series exploring Microsoft.FeatureManagement and Azure App Configuration. See how the Azure App Configuration service makes it easy to manage feature flags in your ASP.NET Core applications.

Previous Episodes:
#158 - Azure App Configuration https://youtu.be/npcTS3ZNY1k
#160 - Azure App Config for Full Framework https://youtu.be/AVxG3N6jjlQ
#163 - Getting Started with Feature Flags - https://youtu.be/uZ7vnvSjUEs
#163 - Using Feature Filters in Microsoft.FeatureManagement - https://youtu.be/uZ7vnvSjUEs
#166 - Staged Rollouts with Microsoft.FeatureManagement - https://youtu.be/uZ7vnvSjUEs

Monsters Weekly 167 - Generating an Absolute URL in Razor Pages

When sharing a URL to a specific page in your Razor Page application via email, you need the ability to generate an absolute URL. In this week’s episode, Monster Dave shows us the easy way to do that.

TLDW:
Url.PageLink(“/Register”, values: new { code = “MyUnique Code” });

Monsters Weekly 166 - Staged Rollouts with Microsoft.FeatureManagement

Continuing our series exploring the Microsoft.FeatureManagement library for ASP.NET Core. In this episode, we dive explore the TargetingFilter which can be used to roll out a feature to a subset of users.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/AspNetMonsters/EP166_FeatureManagementTargetingSample

Previous Episodes:
#163 - Getting Started with Feature Flags - https://youtu.be/uZ7vnvSjUEs
#164 - Feature Filters - https://youtu.be/V92ewvGgSVk

Scaling Azure Functions from Consumption Plan to Premium Plan (and back again)

In this post, we use the az cli to move an Azure Function app from a Consumption Plan to a Premium Plan (and back again).

Monsters Weekly 165 - WaitAndRetry with Polly

Polly the transient application error handling block for .NET is able to handle some pretty complex scenarios. In this episode we’ll expand on the simple retry we set up in a previous episode (https://youtu.be/sjL0w8YrIq4) by handling multiple kinds of errors and introducing WaitAndRetry for exponential back-off.

Monsters Weekly 164 - Using Feature Filters in Microsoft.FeatureManagement

In our second episode in the series exploring Feature Flags using the Microsoft.FeatureManagment library, Monster Dave explores the built in Percentage and TimeWindow feature filters. Feature filters allow us to go beyond simple On / Off settings for features in our application.

Previous Episode - #163: Getting Started with Feature Flags - https://youtu.be/uZ7vnvSjUEs

Deploying a Static Site to Azure Using the az CLI

The az command line interface (cli) is a powerful tool for creating, modifying and deploying to Azure resources. Since it's a cli AND cross platform, it's also a great tool for automating your deployments. In this post, we'll use the az cli to deploy a static site to Azure.

Azure App Configuration Expired Token

I moved one of the products I help maintain over to using Azure’s excellent App Configuration tool. But one of the other developers on the team started to have problems with it. When loading the configuration in Azure Functions they got an error: The access token has expired

Monsters Weekly 163 - Getting Started with Feature Flags

In today’s episode, Monster Dave get’s us started with Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core using the Microsoft.FeatureManagement library. Watch to see how easy it is to incorporate Feature Flags into an existing application, giving you the ability to turn features on and off using simple ASP.NET Core configuration.

Monsters Weekly 162 - Replacing Let's Encrypt with Managed Certificates in App Services

I’ve been using Let’s Encrypt for ages to get SSL on my website but the poor Azure integration is getting me down. In this episode we go into using an Azure managed certificate instead.