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Few things are worse than discovering a TLS certificate has expired without warning. Expired certificates can lead to unexpected downtime, loss of customer trust, and plenty of frustration. To avoid these problems, it’s essential to keep track of your certificates and renew them ahead of time. While many rely on calendar reminders to manage this, manual tracking often isn’t enough. Automating the process is a far more reliable solution. In this post, I’ll show you how to automate TLS certificate monitoring using sharp-cert-manager with Azure Container App Jobs....

Azure DevOps wikis provide a simple and effective way to document your projects. Personally, I love how easy they are to create and maintain. Plus, you get built-in search and the ability to manage your wiki using Git. However, if you already have documentation in Word documents, converting them to markdown for wiki use can be a bit tricky. That’s where Documorph comes in. Documorph is an open-source .NET global tool that converts ....

Let’s face it – writing documentation isn’t always enjoyable and can often feel like a daunting task. It comes in various formats, from a simple README to more comprehensive guides. Personally, I favor markdown and wiki-style documentation because it’s usually closely tied to the code and easy to manage. One common approach to documentation is maintaining a library of Microsoft Word documents. However, these documents are often disjointed, difficult to search, and may lack consistency in style....

Role-based authorization is crucial for controlling access to resources in many applications. When integrating Azure Entra for authentication, leveraging its built-in app roles capability is a common approach. However, managing role assignments for multiple apps across various environments can be tedious. For instance, a scenario with three apps, three roles, and three environments would require 27 role assignments. This post explores automating the process of adding roles to Azure Entra app registrations primarily using the Azure CLI....

There are multiple ways to accomplish the same task in any programming language. Sometimes, it can be challenging to determine the most efficient approach, especially when you’ve performed the task countless times. This is where benchmarking comes in handy. Benchmarking involves comparing different implementations of the same functionality to determine the most efficient one. In this post, I will demonstrate how to benchmark JavaScript code using several popular online tools....