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.

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

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