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.

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.