crandycodes

9 ms·

31.
by crandycodes 10y ago
FYI - click on a channel's "..." and click on "connectors". Tons of 3rd party integrations + custom webhooks. (Disclosure: I work for MSFT, but on Azure, not on Teams/Office/etc.)
32.
by crandycodes 10y ago
And I think that's why the "Satya U-Turn" is so promising. Vista and Lumia were Ballmer-era failures. I work at Microsoft on Azure; it feels like a new era. The open source feel is real, even if we might fail at it here and t
33.
by crandycodes 10y ago
/* I'm a PM on Azure Functions */ Logic Apps and Flow are done by the same team, actually, so that's no surprise. Logic Apps is for "Azure" users, which is mostly IT Pros and Dev. Flow is intended to compliment
34.
by crandycodes 11y ago
So Functions could be treated as an opinionated, lightweight microservice framework, and thus you could compare it to other microservice frameworks like Service Fabric. Service Fabric is great for so many reasons. It can handle large, heavy
35.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I got asked a lot of questions about how we're built today and so I'm adding this comment for historical purposes. We're built around WebJobs SDK and App Service, so much of the core work was done already and I had a plan in
36.
by crandycodes 11y ago
Our pricing is either the dedicate App Service pricing which is GA'd already or the new Dynamic tier which is FREE (as in beer) until beginning of May. We'll have pricing come out sometime this month. You should have at least a GB
37.
by crandycodes 11y ago
We'll have some more templates and end to end samples out soon, as well.
38.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I just ran a sample http triggered function after it sat around cold. It took about a second to respond with "hello world" and then under 100ms after that. Purely anecdotal. Your experience will vary, etc. Cold start is kinda par
39.
by crandycodes 11y ago
The time I spent in meeting discussing this name... :) Honestly, you're right that we're going to run into fun search engine issues, but Stack Overflow tags should hopefully help. We opted for making it obvious what our product wa
40.
by crandycodes 11y ago
david gave a good response. We actually have TWO options (even simpler right? :)). You can just buy a dedicated instance to run on and it will always be hot and running your code. You have to manage scale for that though. You can, more in
41.
by crandycodes 11y ago
We'll have more docs and guidelines on this coming out. Overall, its the same limitations as App Service, if you're familiar with that. We don't have phatomjs working out of the box today, but it's something I'd lik
42.
by crandycodes 11y ago
Whoops. I just added that to my profile. We don't have any current plans for that. Feel free to file a feature request. https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script
43.
by crandycodes 11y ago
We don't yet have a committed time we'll keep you warm and it might change (<-- this is me hedges against future change :)), but it's about 5 minutes today. That's ANY function within a collection of functions running
44.
by crandycodes 11y ago
This is super high on my priorities since I still at least attempt to impersonate a Node dev. I can at least sleep at night knowing I didn't launch a product on 0.10.x. :)
45.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I was waiting for this question to get asked here. :) We don't have any official plans, but because we're open source, you can take a look at how we're doing things and think about adding it yourself later on. We'll have
46.
by crandycodes 11y ago
It's possible today and we'll make it easier over the next two months. https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/wiki
47.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I use a Mac for my daily driver, honestly. We are built on Windows because that's what App Service uses. If App Service adds Linux and Ruby support, we'll definitely light that functionality up on Functions. :)
48.
by crandycodes 11y ago
We should have some more docs on this coming soon, but it's a work in progress, honestly. We think there are too many steps to get it going locally today. You can read more on how to setup the Host here: https://github.com&#
49.
by crandycodes 11y ago
1. We should have Service Bus support in the next month or so. You can see a sample of it in progress here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-webjobs-sdk-script/tree/maste... 2. You can access the file system an
50.
by crandycodes 11y ago
That sounds nifty. Could you provide an end to end flow for what you'd like to do? We'll be opening up the platform for partners to add extensions soon, maybe this is a good candidate.
51.
by crandycodes 11y ago
Honest answer: we need to improve the Ruby experience, in general, on App Service before we'd prioritize Ruby support. We want to improve Ruby for App Service in the near future, so I can imagine Ruby support on Functions later on.
52.
by crandycodes 11y ago
It absolutely is on our roadmap. You can actually try out an early experimental version via the portal, but it will change DRASTICALLY before we announce "full support" for Python. It's definitely high on our list. Check out
53.
by crandycodes 11y ago
You can see our full list of features here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/fun... One feature I'm particularly proud of is our code-less integration that lets you output to vari
54.
by crandycodes 11y ago
Yup. You are sandboxed for certain activities, but you can certainly create outbound requests for talking to databases or APIs
55.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I replied to you below. Mostly it's a time thing. We built this thing in under 90 days. We should have support for F# soon, based on our C# implementation. We're using a pipeline for C# which we think F# should just drop into. (Yo
56.
by crandycodes 11y ago
We had to make some tough scoping calls, but we are actively working on full F# support, based on our C# implementation. You can use F#, but right now it is pretty basic. Check out this sample which you can also deploy via the portal (exp
57.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I mentioned this in the other thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11398402 ), I'm Chris from the Azure Functions team. Feel free to AMA. :)
58.
by crandycodes 11y ago
Great questions. 1. We have experimental support for a few other languages (F#, Python, PHP, Batch, etc.). We'll be improving those as we get more customer input on how it should work and we have time to do it. You can track our progre
59.
by crandycodes 11y ago
UK-AL is right, today is the day to be awesome. My personal answer is that the people working at Microsoft are awesome. We built this product in less than 90 days based on existing platforms; we were given the freedom and resources to do th
60.
by crandycodes 11y ago
I'm Chris from the Azure Functions team. Feel free to AMA.

More ›