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2026
2025
Using Amazon Bedrock models with Microsoft Agent Framework
With the Microsoft Agent Framework you can create AI Agents on my favorite programming language .NET but also in Python. The SDK provide various types of age...
Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen Visit October 2025 Permalink
The Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen is a beautiful nature reserve in the Netherlands. It is home to a variety of wildlife, including fallow deers. In October ...
Using AWS SQS and Event Bridge Pipes to send messages to ECS
Today I was working on a integration to process message from an AWS Simple Queueing Services (SQS) Queue to a backend services. The specifics of this backend...
2024
Lint your Bicep and Bicepparam files with GitHub Workflow
Linters are a very powerfull tool to validate if your code is correct. With the new az bicep lint --file $file command you can validate if your Bicep and Bic...
2023
Create a (free!) App Services Managed Certificates with Bicep
An certificates in Azure App Services is bind to an host name, this can be an apex (or naked) domain (https://robertdeveen.com) or a subdomain (https://www.r...
Connect Home Assistant to Azure Event Grid MQTT Broker
The Azure Event Grid now supports MQTT as a protocol for publishing events. This is great news for Home Assistant users as it allows us to connect Home Assis...
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2019
Start/Stop Azure VMs during off-hours — The Logic App Solution
Virtual machines in a cloud are most of their time not productively and waiting for some jobs to do. Especially during off-hours when the offices are closed ...