Cloud-Native on Azure · Serverless, Networking, .NET

Fabian Zankl

I build cloud-native systems on Azure for industrial IoT and enterprise platforms.

Fabian Zankl

About

I've spent 15+ years building distributed systems for industrial IoT and enterprise platforms. I lead architecture decisions across Azure infrastructure, .NET services and container platforms, and run the DevOps practice that keeps them reliable. I write about Azure in production, from Azure Functions to AKS, and about the private networking that ties them together. New articles are announced on LinkedIn, where I also post shorter notes in between.

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Blog

Articles on running Azure in production: Azure Functions, AKS and the private networking that ties them together, with runnable samples.

Latest

HybridCache: The remove went through, the other instances still serve the old value

Oct 12, 2026 · 11 min read HYBRIDCACHEFUSIONCACHE.NETCACHINGAZURE MANAGED REDIS

After a remove in HybridCache, the other instances serve the old value for 9 more seconds, 59 after a remove by tag. A FusionCache backplane fixes that.

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HybridCache: The remove went through, the other instances still serve the old value

Azure Static Web Apps: One deleted function takes down the whole API

Sep 30, 2026 · 9 min read AZURE STATIC WEB APPSAZURE FUNCTIONSNODE.JSTROUBLESHOOTINGAZURE APPLICATION INSIGHTS

If main in api/package.json points to a deleted file, every Static Web App API route fails despite a successful deployment: HTTP 500 in v3, HTTP 404 in v4.

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Azure Static Web Apps: One deleted function takes down the whole API

More on Azure in production, from Azure Functions to AKS, on the blog.

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Publications

Articles on Azure, .NET and developer tooling written for developer magazines.

Azure IoT Hub — Device Streams

Remote Access to IoT Devices

Dec 14, 2020 DOTNETPROAZUREIOT HUBDOCKER

Secure end-to-end connections to IoT devices via Azure IoT Hub.

dotnetpro 01/2021 — p. 8–15
Native Applications with .NET Core

Ahead-of-Time Compilation for .NET Core

May 13, 2019 DOTNETPRO.NET CORE

Build native apps for Windows, Linux, and macOS without giving up your preferred .NET language.

dotnetpro 06/2019 — p. 58–64

All magazine articles, including the older ones.

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Contact

Open to speaking or having a conversation about your platform. Reach me on any of the channels below.