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Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare

Troy Hunt

Back in 2016, I wrote a blog post about the Martin Lewis Money show featuring HIBP and how it drove an unprecedented spike of traffic to the service, ultimately knocking it offline for a brief period of time. Round 2", I'm thinking, except this time I'm ready for crazy traffic. Last week, the show reached out again.

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Seamless A/B Testing, Deployment Slots and DNS Rollover with Azure Functions and Cloudflare Workers

Troy Hunt

Two of my favourite developer things these days are Azure Functions and Cloudflare Workers. So for example, when you have an Azure function and you deploy it under a consumption plan , you pay for per-second resource consumption (how much memory you use for how long) and the number of times it executes.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017.