Using AWS Lambda Function URL to build a Serverless backend for Slack

A combination of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway is a widely-used architecture for serverless microservices and API based solutions. They enable developers to focus on their applications, instead of spending time provisioning and managing servers.

API Gateway is a feature rich offering that includes with support for different API types (HTTP, REST, WebSocket), multiple authentication schemes, API versioning, canary deployments and much more! However, if your requirements are simpler and all you need is an HTTP(S) endpoint for your Lambda function (for example, to serve as a webhook), you can use Lambda Function URLs! When you create a function URL, Lambda automatically generates a unique HTTP(S) endpoint that is dedicated for your Lambda function.

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How to use Azure Go SDK to manage Azure Data Explorer clusters

Getting started with Azure Data Explorer using the Go SDK covered how to use the Azure Data Explorer Go SDK to ingest and query data from azure data explorer to ingest and query data. In this blog you will the Azure Go SDK to manage Azure Data Explorer clusters and databases.

Azure Data Explorer (also known as Kusto) is a fast and scalable data exploration service for analyzing large volumes of diverse data from any data source, such as websites, applications, IoT devices, and more. This data can then be used for diagnostics, monitoring, reporting, machine learning, and additional analytics capabilities.

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Tutorial: Getting started with Azure Data Explorer using the Go SDK

With the help of an example, this blog post will walk you through how to use the Azure Data explorer Go SDK to ingest data from a Azure Blob storage container and query it programmatically using the SDK. After a quick overview of how to setup Azure Data Explorer cluster (and a database), we will explore the code to understand what’s going on (and how) and finally test the application using a simple CLI interface

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