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Handle website redirects …


In my last post, I mentioned that I’d hit a little snag when I was migrating my live site over to my new architecture.

When I built my test site it always used a subdomain (beta.cirriustech.co.uk) so I never had any issue with DNS.

However, when I migrated my live site over, I had built it …

New site now live!


Much later than planned, I’ve completed the cutover to my new Hugo static site in production, as written about in my last post.

A number of factors delayed it. Mostly private, which I won’t go into here, but also some technical ones too that I put aside for a while due to the above. …

Say Hello World to Hugo!


In my recent posts, I spent a lot of time talking about Hugo and Static Websites in Azure.

I’ve now finished converting the content from this existing blog over to Hugo, underpinned by:

  • Azure Static Websites
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Functions
  • Cloudflare CDN

It’s now available …

When Bugs and Mistakes …


A few weeks ago I commented on a request from Jack Tracey for speakers at the Open Mic Night of the August 2019 Sussex Azure User Group - with the idea being to share your stories of mistakes you’ve made that have led to P1 incidents. I flippantly said I had plenty of stories but …

Azure: Trigger a WebJob …

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In my last post, Azure: Trigger a WebJob with Logic Apps and Kudu - Part 1, we built a KeyVault and a WebJob that will retrieve a storage key from KeyVault (using Managed Identity and REST APIs) and then backed up our webapp content and copied it to blob …

Cirrius Tech - An …

My Background

I am a lifelong technology enthusiast, having worked in Financial Services IT for more than 20 years, across multiple disciplines including:

  • Unisys MCP-based mainframe platforms (A17/A19/HMP NX 6800/Libra 180/Libra 6xx/Libra 890)
  • EMC Symmetrix storage arrays (DMX 3/4 and most recently …