Logic Apps foreach limits

Lately, I was working on a proof of concept on Logic Apps. I created a Logic App that looped over all files in a specific folder and processed them. I was curious about the performance, so I copied 10.000 files in the folder. The Logic App kicked off and started processing them. After a while the Logic App ended up in a failed state. Let's have a look what happened.

Cascading effects of nested Logic Apps

A good architect and great developer have one thing in common: they are lazy! They design the solution in such a way that they can reuse as much as possible common components within their solution. This applies to any technology, so it does for Logic Apps. Logic Apps provides many ways to benefit from re-usability.

Continuous Refactoring

What do I mean with “Continuous Refactoring”? related terms are: Merciless Refactoring, The Boy Scout Rule… The main principle is that you refactor constantly without mercy to improve the design of your code. The boy scout rule state that “you must leave the playground cleaner than you found it”. Some teams are still cautious about this practice because they see the risk of change; what they don’t see is the risk of keeping it and the cost of working around it.

BizTalk 2016 Webinar - Facts and Features

Dive into BizTalk 2016 with this webinar, describing the new features on BizTalk 2016.

Service Bus connector issue

Lately, I tried to connect to a Service Bus queue with limited permissions (Listen only). I encountered an issue that I want to share with you, so it can save you some time!

Exception handling for Logic Apps web services

This blog post covers some aspects about exception handling in case you expose nested workflows as a web service. When dealing with web services, it's important to ensure that no time outs are triggered and that meaningful exception messages are returned to the client. Let's have a look how this can be done.