Logic Apps Debatching

Debatching is a common need in enterprise integration. This blog post includes several ways to achieve debatching in Logic Apps for both JSON and XML messages. The aspect of monitoring and exception handling is also covered.

Save costs by scheduling Logic Apps

Within Logic Apps, there is a pay-per-usage pricing model. You get invoiced for every action that is executed, but also for every polling trigger (regardless whether the trigger is skipped or fired). You can reduce the cost of polling triggers by scheduling Logic Apps to run only during business hours, if your scenario allows this of course. This blog posts describes all the detailed steps required to schedule Logic Apps automatically.

Authenticate Postman against Azure Service Management API

Postman is a great and popular tool to test Web API's. There are however a few steps needed to get it authenticated against Microsoft's standard API's, such as the Azure Service Management API. This blog post covers two ways on how to authenticate Postman quick and easily.

Azure, the co-creation platform

You most probably know that Microsoft is the world’s largest contributor to the open source community on the popular GitHub platform, no? That’s right. When it comes to sharing code for open development and collaboration, it is leaving behind companies like Facebook, Google and Red Hat. All this is the result of a major strategic shift initiated by Steve Ballmer, and accelerated by Satya Nadella. One that will allow Microsoft to transform to a full-blown Software-as-a-Service company.

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.