10 Differences between Azure Functions and Logic Apps

Azure's serverless PaaS offering consists of Azure Functions and Logic Apps. If you consult the documentation, you'll find out that there is quite some overlap between the two. For many people, it's not clear what technology to use in what scenario. In this blog post, I discuss the main differences between these two event-driven Azure services and I provide some guidance to help you to make the right decision.

Test Infected - Functional Ignorance

How can Functional Programming help us to ignore even more in our tests?

How to choose the AS2 Signing Algorithm in BizTalk 2016

With the introduction of BizTalk 2016 it is now possible to use SHA-2 certificates when signing a message. As this is not as straightforward as I expected it to be, I’ve decided to share my experiences with setting up SHA-2 in this blogpost.

10 Ways to Leverage Scrum Principles Within Integration

I've always been intrigued by agile development and scrum methodology. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to work within a real agile organization. Because I strongly believe in scrum and its fundamental key principles, I've tried to apply an agile mindset on integration projects; even within very waterfall oriented organizations and projects. I'm not an expert at all on scrum methodology, I've just adopted it in a very pragmatic way.

Exploring Azure Event Grid - Are Service Bus Topics Dead?

In this third and final article on Azure Event Grid, we'll have a look at how this relates to Azure Service Bus Topics and why they are still relevant.

Exploring Azure Event Grid - Looking ahead

In this second article on Azure Event Grid, we'll have a look at what I'd like to see being added to Azure Event Grid.