Azure DevOps provides a suite of services for development and collaborations for your projects. Azure DevOps services include Azure Pipelines, which is a popular tool for Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD). It works with any language, any platform and runs jobs in parallel on Linux, macOS or...

You may notice a trend during the month of November where lots of normally clean-shaven blokes are suddenly sporting (often embarrassingly hideous) attempts at growing a moustache. There’s a good chance that they are making a spectacle of themselves for a worthy cause. Over the past sixteen years, the Movember...

Meet Niv, a Graduate from Deloitte’s Platform Engineering (DPE) team in Melbourne! Coming from a Sales & Marketing background, Deloitte has opened her eyes to the endless possibilities within Tech for talented people like herself.

She’s currently helping a public sector client implement a new CRM solution as they...

Overview

The core of any business is the underlying infrastructure. Over the years, the infrastructure landscape has evolved at a significant pace. Initially, there were traditional data centres. Then there were data centre co-location services. These days Infrastructure-as-a-Service and cloud platforms are more...

This post is part of a series

1. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions
2. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Durable Functions (this)

In a previous post, I shared how you can deploy a Serverless Request Bin using Azure Functions. I also shared how I built it using a memory cache as a persistence...

Overview

Azure DevOps provides a powerful toolset to enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) capabilities. 

The Apigee Edge API Management platform provides API management capabilities to backend services such as security, rate limiting, quotas and analytics. There are also different deployment...

As we move more towards the cloud for our solutions these days, there are a growing number of PAAS options appearing that can help us to solve our problems without needing to reinvent the wheel.

If your application requires a search service to be able to quickly query over a proprietary or legacy data source, I can...

This post is part of a series

1. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions (this)
2. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Durable Entities and Azure Durable Functions 2.0

If you have developed or consumed HTTP APIs or webhooks, chances are that you have had the need of troubleshooting and inspecting HTTP...

Being a consultant within Deloitte’s Platform Engineering (DPE) team is something that many of us aspire to be as technology professionals. Not only does it provide you with the opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest minds in this field, but it also allows you to develop and grow within a positive work...

Earlier this year I took on a personal challenge along with 700 teams around Melbourne to complete the 100 km Oxfam walk. My team (The DPEdostrians) managed to complete this long but rewarding walk in just over 30 hrs.

One of the many thoughts that constantly surfaced during this walk was the effect of pebbles once...