Devon Burriss' Blog

What is Functional Programming?

...and why should you care?

Posted by Devon Burriss on December 22, 2021

F#Functional Programming

Reliable APIs - Part 3

The epic saga of client-side IDs and true idempotency

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 29, 2021

Distributed Systems API Design Reliability Idempotent Client-generated ID

Reliable APIs - Part 2

Using Idempotency-Key and a response cache

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 23, 2021

Distributed Systems API Design Reliability Idempotent

Reliable APIs - Part 1

Exploring reties, retry implications, and the failure modes they are appropriate for

Posted by Devon Burriss on August 22, 2021

Distributed Systems API Design Reliability

Capturing custom business metrics in Azure Functions

A Proof-of-concept for scraping Prometheus metrics from Azure Functions

Posted by Devon Burriss on February 01, 2021

F#Observability Prometheus

Prometheus Datadog Agent

Setting up a Datadog agent to pull from a Prometheus endpoint

Posted by Devon Burriss on January 31, 2021

Prometheus Datadog Observability

Local Prometheus setup

Setting up Prometheus locally with Docker

Posted by Devon Burriss on January 30, 2021

Prometheus Docker Observability

The meaning of meditation

A tour of areas that can be improved by skillful application of meditation techniques

Posted by Devon Burriss on January 09, 2021

Meditation Mindfulness Morality

Creating a Prometheus parser: Fennel

A quick tour of using FParsec to write a Prometheus parser

Posted by Devon Burriss on December 24, 2020

F#Prometheus Fennel FsAdvent

Converting between F# and C# types

Breaking down conversions between C# and F# collections and functions

Posted by Devon Burriss on May 05, 2020

F#C#Collections