Exploring Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is here - In this first article we'll have a look at what it is, dive into the details and discuss certain new scenarios.

Avoid accidental removal of Azure resources

Accidental removal of important Azure resources is something to be avoided at all time. For sure if it occurs with statefull Azure services, that are hosting very important information. Common examples of such Azure services are Azure Storage Accounts and Azure KeyVaults. This blog post describes three steps to minimize the risk of such unwanted removals, however additional measures might be needed, depending on your use case.

Logic Apps upsert logic!

Should we create a record or update it? What constraints define if a record already exists? These are typical questions we need to ask ourselves when analyzing a new interface. This blog post focuses on how we can deal with such update / insert (upsert) decisions in Logic Apps. Three popular Logic Apps connectors are investigated: the Common Data Service, File System and SQL Server connector.

Logic Apps fails to parse ServiceBus messages from ASA

Recently I was asked for an intervention on an IoT project. Sensor data was sent via Azure IoT Hubs towards Azure Stream Analytics. Events detected in Azure Stream Analytics resulted in a Service Bus message, that had to be handled by a Logic App. Hence, the Logic Apps failed to parse that JSON message taken from a Service Bus queue. Let's have a more detailed look at the issue!

Test Infected - Test Ignorance

In this part of the Test Infected series, I will talk about the ignorance of tests and how we can achieve more ignorance.The short answer: if it doesn’t contribute to the test, hide/remove it!The reason I wrote this post is because I see many tests with an overload of information embedded, and with some more background information people may increase the ignorance of their tests.

Logic Apps: the new batch feature!

Jon Fancey announced at Integrate the out-of-the-box batching feature in Logic Apps! This early morning, I saw by accident that this feature is already released in West-Europe. This blog contains a short preview of the batching functionality. There will definitely be a follow up with more details and scenarios!