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.

BTUG.be XL - BizTalk 2016 Slidedeck

On December 13th I spoke at BTUG.be XL about BizTalk 2016, the new features and the key aspects of its Always On support. In this post I share with you my slide deck.

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).

Delivery Notification and the HTTP 500 Status Code

Why do HTTP 400 status codes return a NACK, while HTTP 500 status codes return an ACK? And how to deal with this... This post describes an interesting scenario we encountered at a customer and our considerations for dealing with it.

Responsibility-Driven Design (In Practice)

What drives software design? Several mechanisms are introduced over the years that explains what different approaches you can use or combine. Following article talks about just another technique: Responsible-Driven Design, and how I use it in my daily development work.