Static Websites in 2025 with Stacy Cashmore
How are Azure Static Websites evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Stacy Cashmore about her work with Azure Static Websites, including an update to her book, which is coming soon! Stacy talks about adapting to the latest version of .NET, taking advantage of some of the new features in Blazor, and new Azure Static Website capabilities, including the new Data API Builder. The conversation also explores some of the gotchas, like challenges with SEO and dealing with authentication and authorization strategies.
Guests:
Stacy Cashmore
Stacy Cashmore is a Tech Explorer DevOps at Omniplan, and Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies. She’s been developing software since the mid-1990s and has been speaking about improving the way we develop software at conferences and meetups since 2019. As well as sparing with the software architect about technical issues, she spends her time helping the development team, and the wider company, with continuous improvement in terms of technical work, process, and, of course, working together as a team. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her classic car, cooking, playing the piano badly, and spending time with her family, doing amongst other things, building a Lego modular building city in their house.
Links:
- Awesome Bluesky https://github.com/fishttp/awesome-bluesky?tab=readme-ov-file
- Beginning Azure Static Web Apps https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-azure-static/9781484281468/
- Azure Static Web Apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- Pi-hole https://pi-hole.net/
- GitHub Codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces
- next js pre-rendering https://nextjs.org/learn-pages-router/basics/data-fetching
- Azure Data API Builder https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-api-builder/overview?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953
- gRPC https://grpc.io/
- Authenticate and Authorize Static Web Apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/authentication-authorization?WT.mc_id=DT-MVP-10953