Run BizTalk extension objects in Logic Apps

Lately, I was working at a customer that heavily invested in BizTalk Server on premises during the last decade. They are considering to migrate parts of their existing integrations towards Logic Apps, to leverage the smooth integration with modern SaaS applications. A very important aspect is the ability to reuse their existing schemas and maps as much as possible.

10 tips for enterprise integration with Logic Apps

This post contains 10 useful tips for designing enterprise integration solutions on top of Logic Apps. It's important to think upfront about reusability, reliability, security, error handling and maintenance.

The Integrate Button

Several things became clear to me when studying CI. One of things is that everything is based on the principle of automation. The moment when you start thinking about “I can’t automate this”: that’s the moment when you should ask yourself if that is really the case.

Working with collections in Logic Apps

Quite often I get questions on how to modify JSON collections or arrays within Logic Apps. Before reaching out to Azure Functions, as an extensibility option, I prefer to use the out-of-the-box available Logic Apps functionality. This blog post contains some tips and tricks about dealing with collections.

Test-First Mindset

One of the mind-blowing development techniques that radically changed the programming world is the Test-Driven Development approach introduced by Kent Beck. But... writing tests before we start coding? Who will do that?

CosmosDb vs Table Storage: write throughput comparison

During //Build, Microsoft surprised the market with the CosmosDb announcement. With the announcement, Microsoft made some very bold statements about the service, particularly about scalability and performance. I was particularly curious about the sub-10-millisecond write performance promised at the 99th percentile, which also included the indexing overhead on writes.