Azure API Management, Logic Apps and ARM : manage and get managed

In Azure API Management, Groups are used to manage the visibility of products to developers so the developers can view and consume the APIs that are contained into the groups in which they belong. Suppose that we have a custom group for developers affiliated with a specific business partner and we want to allow those developers (that signed up with different identity providers) to access only to the partner's relevant Products. Let's combine Logic Apps, Azure API Management and ARM together to automate the user group association.

Logic Apps resubmit considerations

Logic Apps offers the long-requested resubmit feature. This is very a powerful capability to take into account when designing an error handling strategy. However, do not take the resubmit for granted. Ensure you know how it behaves or you might end-up with some unpleasant surprises at the end of your project. Read about it on the internet, discuss with your colleagues and eventually get your hands dirty! Some small prototyping during design phase is definitely recommended.

Expose SAP functionalities to the cloud with Logic Apps

In this blog post I will demonstrate how easy it is to expose SAP functionality to the cloud with the new functionalities provided by Logic Apps. I will create a Logic App that exposes BAPI functionality to an external website.

The importance of idempotent receivers

In many integration projects, the importance of idempotent receivers is overlooked. This blog post summarizes what idempotent receivers are, why we need them and how we can achieve it.

Handling Azure Alerts with Azure Logic Apps

When maintaining dozens, or even hundreds of Azure resources it is crucial to keep track of what is going on and how they behave. To achieve this, Azure provides a set of functionalities and services to help you monitor them.One of those functionalities is the ability to configure Azure Alerts on your assets. By creating an alert you define how and under what circumstances you want to be notified of a specific event, ie. sending an email when DTU capacity is over 90% of your production database.

BFF pattern with Azure API Management

Don’t dump your internal data model on your clients. Work outside-in, design your API with the clients in mind. Build your server side API once and then tailor the API to different clients (Backend-For-Frontends pattern).