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.

Monitoring in Logic Apps

This blog post covers several ways to optimize the monitoring experience of your Logic Apps. Logic Apps provide two ways to add functional data to your workflow runs: tracked properties and outputs. This functional data can be used to improve operational experience, to find a specific run based on business data and to serve as a base for reporting. Both options are discussed in depth and compared.

Reliably receive SQL data in Logic Apps

Receiving data from a SQL table and processing it towards other back-end systems; It's a very common use case in integration. Logic Apps has all the required functionality in its toolbox to fulfill this integration need. This blog post explains how you can do this in a reliable fashion, in case you're dealing with mission critical interfaces where no data loss is accepted.