Thanks for sharing, and thanks for making those interviews. I'll be listening to both tonight. Dr. Jane Goodall was a remarkable person.

Both, obviously 🙂

I'm "inspired" enough by this whole ordeal to the point this might bring me back to blogging (after a short 13 year hiatus).

I'm very glad the Azure team has detailed documentation on the shared key format with step-by-step instructions on how to construct one. I learned a lot from this wild adventure, but I wish it wasn't necessary. The official Azure SDKs for Rust should support the other stuff made by the team.

Thankfully, the HTTP client logic has a middleware system that can be customized. More importantly, it's possible to customize the final layer. My wild solution was to implement the logic to generate a shared key for every request, and then overriding the authorization header with the shared key.