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Zoo 105 Podcast: Migration from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6

Azure Functions have been updated to support the latest version of .NET, the 6.0, that is LTS (Long Term Support). I have taken the opportunity to update my project, the Azure Function that generates the podcast for Zoo di 105. In this blog post I want to describe shortly

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Azure Speech to Text of MP3 files

For a customer, I needed to create a POC where we wanted to run the Azure Speech service Speech-to-Text against the Mozilla Common Voice project, that is a collection of MP3 files reproducing people speaking in different languages. Currently Speech-to-Text can't work with MP3 files; the suggested solution is to

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Kubernetes error: "unable to recognize "curiakube.yaml": no matches for kind "Deployment" in version "apps/v1beta1""

I have written in previous posts How I have moved my Ghost blog to Azure Kubernetes and How to update a Kubernetes cluster. Because of some maintenance, I have deleted the deployment of the Kubernetes pod, and when trying to reapply it, I got the following error: damiano@Azure:~$ kubectl

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How to update a Kubernetes cluster

I have logged some time ago How I have moved my Ghost blog to Azure Kubernetes. The point is that periodically Kubernetes gets updated and as described in Upgrade an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster: As part of the lifecycle of an AKS cluster, you often need to upgrade to

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Azure Storage Explorer: upload files with the correct Content-Type

If you use any type of Azure Storage (or even CosmosDB), you must know Azure Storage Explorer. This is a tool based on Electron and available for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, that allows to quickly browse your storage spaces and CosmosDB databases. Recently, I was benefitting from static website

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How I have moved my Ghost blog to Azure Kubernetes

I have written already in this blog How I have moved my blog to Ghost. That solution worked well until the beginning of this year, when there has been a change in Azure that prevented to write the SQLite database hosted in an Azure Storage Blob because it was made

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How I have moved my blog to Ghost

During my past holidays, I have migrated my blog from Blogifier to Ghost. The main reason of this move has been the lack of development of Blogifier (and even before, similar issues with BlogEngine). I have initially tried to deploy it via CI/CD from the official GitHub repository, but

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Zoo 105 Podcast: adding Azure Blob storage

In this last step of my application, I wanted to save the podcast episodes (the real mp3 files) in an Azure Blob storage. I didn't want to slow down my optimized Azure Function, so I decided to download the mp3 files in a separate function. How to invoke this second

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Zoo 105 Podcast: adding CosmosDB

After having developed the first version of the podcast feed, I wanted to improve it. My idea was to cache the data already got from the http endpoint, to achieve two goals: improve performances; avoid that with an increasing number of users using my podcast feed, I (my podcast) would

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Zoo 105 Podcast: introduction and Azure Function setup

The Zoo di 105 is a very popular Italian radio program. It's a satiric program made of multiple "scenette", sketches that continue from episode to episode. While there are podcasts for these sketches, there is not a global podcast to listen to the full episodes, even if the