Building cloud-based solutions in a single cloud is not often enough today. Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. offer unique features and services that you would like to leverage no matter where your primary workloads are deployed to. Some say development in all cloud providers are similar. This…

In the previous story I tried to explain how to make a good use of OAuth 2.0 Implicit Grant flow feature while reaching out to external APIs from PowerApps portals (PAPs). In this article I would like to showcase how to offload application-to-application authorization with Azure API Management (APIM) which…

While working with PowerApps portals and delivering custom experiences to your users you may have come across a challenge of calling external APIs. Since the portal experience mostly relies on Javascript running in the browser, which is significantly more challenging to secure than server-side, there is no obvious nor out…

Problem Statement For as long as I can only remember architects have been looking for ways to ensure the binary payload entering a security perimeter of the systems they design is virus-free. Also, for as long as I can only remember it has not been a clear path to add this piece…

Azure DevOps has been flourishing for some time now improving engineering experience sprint by sprint. Recently, I have been observing how dependency management can be taken care of and how to make Azure Pipelines and Azure Artefacts services work together effectively. …

If you ever happen to ship your application with Azure App Service and SpringBoot (Java) you probably want to integrate it with Azure AppInsights to monitor your application behaviour and logs. Sadly, Microsoft does not publish agent jar anywhere nice such as Maven Central Repository, but only publishes it on…

Serverless architectures are getting more and more attention due to their simplicity and short time to deliver. As for every architecture there are concerns that need to be addressed. This article will focus on modelling Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline for a generic serverless architecture using a top-down approach. For…

Cloud services constantly change and innovate and we, Kainos, do the same. Having delivered IaaS and PaaS solutions, it was high to time to try out FaaS. I’d like to share some of the things we learned by building a simple subscription service using AWS Lambda. We built a simple…