First part in a series on monitoring my home's energy consumption and solar energy production.

Each Azure subscription has a bunch of limits and quotas. Most of these are 'soft' limits, meaning that they can be raised on your request. But do you need keep an eye on those limits yourself?

My Microsoft colleagues Burke Holland and Cecil Phillip built a very useful application called 'The Urlist' using a serverless approach with Azure Functions and Cosmos DB. They presented this app in a Build 2019 session and of course they open sourced everything. This is great because then I can learn from it and maybe in return add something new to it. But first I need to get it up-and-running on my own laptop (and Azure subscription). So, let's dive in (head first)!

Onboarding and drinking from the firehose