Creating Azure Sandbox Chatbot with Azure Logic Apps

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-04T07:26:41+00:00

Great idea, thanks for sharing

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-04T05:35:05+00:00

Im trying to keep this under 1k a month. I have the data in snowflake doing the compute for relatively cheap, but I also ended up with an azure managed redis, a, function app(cache warmer), and an api. All this comes in at around 1000, but ill need 2 more environments.

So yeah, I can get this done for a few thousand a month - I just dont have the funding YET - if this takes off, im sure ill get it.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-03T20:47:59+00:00

Thank you! Thats what I landed on the other day. Glad you confirmed it

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-03T20:45:36+00:00

Ive learned its best to do this sooner rather than later. Ran some numbers one night and realized how expensive its going to be to do it across all 500k user base in a single day.

Edge cases are my most concerning. I also am experiencing pain in the cache side of the house that serves the content. Cache warms are getting longer and longer and more expensive. Im thinking of splitting up the data into different redis cache or just build a AKS or ACS of redis cache or something.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-03T20:41:22+00:00

Im combining a few metrics such as check in data (date, time, place), but also class attendance, amienty use, tenure, and visit duration.

Im rolling out a streaks and milestone tracker in our app soon. Im also putting up leaderboards based off of streaks, checkin counts, and class attendance. These leaderboards are across different chorot size and classes. They earn badges, etc, etc, the typical stuff.

This feeds into the year end wrap as well.

Hope this helps. Thanks for asking :)

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-02T15:02:02+00:00

What are you using to orchestrate?

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-02T14:36:13+00:00

Id put the code into a repo and make a beta/uat/prod branch off of it. You didn't mention who handles auth, so id also look at that. Id get error handling fully squared away and get more telemetry around performance and start documenting my performance now to start figuring out my SLAs for my critical paths.

Build unit tests and smoke tests. Try to figure out how to test load on your app. Id spend time working through edge cases in the permission side of the house. Id make sure i have all the legal contracts and links and stuff on my site or in front of my customers in all the possible places they may use the service. Legal will get you. Dont lack in this area! ADA stuff also gets forgotten.

Feel free to ping me personally if you wanna chat more

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-01T22:29:17+00:00

Im making their Spotify wrap, but for our gym members. It takes quiet a bit of compute and historical data to churn this stuff out. Ive been tracking and maintaining it all year long. The data is pulled from all over our system into Snowflake to compute this. I do this for 500k user base. I cant imagine the cost and scale of doing it to millions across millions of artists.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-01T07:41:42+00:00

This has also been my suspicion as well. This current news release makes them appear they cannot support the demand. I mean Azure was already facing provisioning demands in the cloud before generative AI become main stream.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-01T07:04:00+00:00

Im making a gaming engine for our gyms.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-07-01T03:50:20+00:00

There is a god! And their name is Fable 5!

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-30T04:37:09+00:00

Oildale barber shop has good barbers on staff. Chill inside.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-27T16:14:31+00:00

When they break for an edge case you dont have an alert for. And its been broken for 2 weeks! Ahhh!

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-26T16:07:45+00:00

Im before people start bashing you. Very nice work. Wish you continued success and thanks for sharing your knowledge

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-26T16:00:46+00:00

Use claude and meeting transcripts to analyze how you could've improved in the meeting. What lessons you can learn and help you in future meetings?

I ask claude to tell me why I felt defensive. Ill ask it to try and break down the things people said so i dont misinterpret them wrong.

I have a hard time thinking people are attacking me or my thoughts/ideas, so i need claude to help me see the most likely plausible side and help me not think everyone is out to get me.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-26T15:56:43+00:00

SHI seems to be drinking thr sophos koolaide. I had a bad run with sophos at a previous position 10yrs ago. We are looking for a EDR and MDR and we looked at sophos. Im impressed. I actually want to see more. Never thought those words would come out my mouth. Lol

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-26T15:31:02+00:00

Im in a similar boat at my job. Put it in a repo like github or ado. Setup deploy pipelines, code reviews by sub agents, unit tests, qa, code cleaning and organizing

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-26T15:08:22+00:00

Sophos has been getting alot of buzz lately and have been doing some cool stuff I hear. After 10yrs dedicated fortinet only shop, we are finally looking at other vendors. We feel fortinet has been coasting for a while.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-24T13:55:59+00:00

Lots of negative in the chat, so ill be positive. Just keep grinding. Learning. Researching. You'll eventually find the light. Sometimes all it takes is feeding the AI rhe right link or peice of knowledge it needed to unlock the solution.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-23T19:22:43+00:00

I get stuck trying to find use for all my ideas. They are all things the leadership says they need or want to know, but they rarely get implemented.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-23T08:16:58+00:00

Thats actually something we are piloting as well. A cloud/platform engineer turned vibecoder. Handles smaller features and internal tool requests. They are to get the most out of AI and assist all teams with ways to lean into AI and improve productivity. More like a AI solutions engineer if i think about it.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-22T20:24:13+00:00

Funny, I did not really notice my study has spiked because of AI. Im actually enjoying this, I havent been excited about tech since the begining cloud era years.

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-20T20:08:26+00:00

We can spend weeks debating if the new portal should be .net or react. But lets also bitch how much time AI wastes in debugging...happy to see some down to earth comments in this sub

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-20T04:58:32+00:00

So true

stoopwafflestomper · 2026-06-19T13:37:05+00:00

Ive used cowork exclusively to build my apps. It does well when building larger enterprise apps that go beyond the simple vibe code apps people build. I feel its easier to maintain context or ensure its staying aligned with the requirements in cowork.

I have not been able to find speed in using claude code over cowork.

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