If you have Azure Functions running on the Linux Consumption plan, it’s time to start planning for a migration. On … More
Tag: Azure Functions
Dynamics 365 Business Central: using a static IP address to access APIs.
Sometimes in Dynamics 365 Business Central projects you can have very strict security requirements for integrations with third-party systems. One … More
Azure Function SQL Trigger: how to use it (and why it can be useful in your Business Central projects)
This post comes as a follow-up of my “Serverless Integrations for Dynamics 365 Business Central” training I’ve done yesterday in … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: merging PDFs online with an Azure Function.
Some days ago on an internal forum (Yammer) someone posted the following request: Is it possible in Dynamics 365 Business … More
Azure Functions: .NET 7 support is ending and you should upgrade to .NET 8.
On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More
The 2nd edition of “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” is here…
More than one year of work, many updates and reviews, lots of energies spent. But now I’m proud to announce … More
List all Azure Functions with older runtime with Powershell
When you create an Azure Function app, the runtime is responsible for executing function code on the underlying WebJobs SDK … More
Azure Functions and Data Parallelism: things to know.
When working with code on some complex data operations, sometimes to improve performances it’s possible to use code techniques like … More
Azure Functions: .NET 7 and .NET 8 local debugging bug on Visual Studio Code.
This is a very quick post signaling a bug that makes me spending hours of troubleshooting. If you’re developing Azure … More
Azure Functions and Blob Triggers: be careful on the binding type.
This post is borned to signal a problem that I’ve recently found in a customer and I think that sharing … More
Azure Functions with VNET integration: remember to enable Runtime Scale Monitoring
When working with Azure Functions, in real-world projects could happen that you need to connect to resources in an Azure … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central telemetries for Azure Functions
In my Azure Functions session at latest BC TechDays in Belgium I spent some minutes showing the Azure Functions module … More
Azure Functions: how to debug remotely in production
Last week at BC TechDays in Belgium, I’ve received a lot of technical questions after the two sessions I’ve done. … More
Me @ BC TechDays 2023
I will be in Antwerp (Belgium) from June 21 to 23 for the BC TechDays conference. Hoping to see some … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Azure Functions and telemetries: best practices
Last week at DynamicsMinds conference, after my session about Azure Functions I’ve received an interesting question: in a context of … More
Azure Logic Apps and polling: are you always doing the best choice?
How often in your real world projects have you the need to poll an external system or an external source … More
Are you using proxies with Azure Functions? Start moving to Azure API Management.
When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More
Azure Functions cold start: impact on Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks
I think that many of you know what Dynamics 365 Business Central webhooks are. In few words, webhooks is the … More
Processing Azure Blob Storage events with Azure Event Grid, Logic Apps and Azure Functions (real case)
Problem raised by a customer: “We are using Azure Blob Storage with a Dynamics 365 Business Central solution. The solution … More
Testing Azure Functions performances with Azure Load Testing
If someone of you remember, in the past I wrote about doing performance testing of Azure Functions using tools like … More
Timer Trigger Azure Functions: handling retry policies
In my last post about serverless architectures for decoupling integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, I’ve talked … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: queue usage to decouple your serverless integrations
In the last weeks I had lots of requests and discussions by partners in the Dynamics community asking for a … More
Azure Functions: getting the client IP address
When using Azure Functions, sometimes is required to log the IP address of the client calling your function app. Unfortunately, … More
Testing multiple Azure Functions apps running together with Microsoft Tye
If you frequently work with serverless architectures and expecially with Azure Functions, I think that you know that splitting a … More
Do you have Azure Functions in production? Update your Azure Functions apps to use runtime version 4.x
On December 3, 2022, .NET Core 3.1 will be retired. As a result, Azure Functions runtime versions 2.x and 3.x, … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: handling files via FTP on SaaS
I’ve written lot of time ago a post on how to save a file from Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and availability tests
Dynamics 365 Business Central is an absolutely reliable SaaS service that runs on the Azure platform. It’s a cloud service … More
Me @ Directions EMEA
Next week it’s finally the Directions EMEA week and the conference this year will be in Italy in the great … More
Azure AD authentication for Application Insights: how to use it and the impact on Business Central telemetry
Microsoft has recently announced the public preview of a new capability for Azure Application Insights: the support for Azure Active … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and .NET Framework add-ins: it’s time to change
With Dynamics 365 Business Central 2021 Wave 1 Microsoft is continuously moving the server to .NET Standard and if you’re … More
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time
I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using … More
Moving Azure Functions from Consumption to Premium plans
In a demo at the Microsoft’s Reactor event in October I talked about the performance advantages on moving Azure Functions … More
Creating lightweight Teams bots with outgoing webhooks and Azure Functions
Microsoft Teams is becoming always more a central point for the everyday’s work on many of us now and often … More
Handling the “HTTP 429 – Too Many Requests” error when calling external services
I think that many of you that creates integrations with external services could have the pleasure to know the HTTP … More
Stefano Demiliani 