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Tag: Azure Functions
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
Creating a local drive mapped with an Azure File Share for your files in the cloud
File Management in the cloud is always an hot topic when using SaaS services like Dynamics 365 Business Central. A … More
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 4-steps webcasts ended today
Today was the last stage for this serie of 4 Microsoft’s webcasts related to Dynamics 365 Business Central integrations and … More
Sending Azure Alerts to Dynamics 365 Business Central
When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice … More
My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production
Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: save a file to an SFTP server
In our recently released “Mastering Dynamics 365 Business Central” book, in the Azure Function chapter I’ve provided a full example … More
A quick way to deploy your Azure Functions in the cloud
After my last webcast about Azure Functions, I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to … More
Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions
In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use … More
Executing your .exe tasks on a Cloud environment by using Azure Functions
I think that many of you on your Dynamics NAV or Dynamics 365 Business Central projects have tasks executed by … More
DynamicsPower! 2020 Milan
DynamicsPower! 365 Saturday Milan is returning in 2020 at Microsoft House with the biggest Dynamics 365 italian community event covering … More
“Azure Functions for Dynamics 365 Business Central Developers” webcast recording
The recording of my last webcast for Areopa Academy is available on their YouTube channel. Again, sorry for the initial … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Using Azure Traffic Manager to geo-distribute your Azure Functions
Some months ago I’ve written this post describing an interesting solution we’ve deployed for a geo-distributed solution that involves Dynamics … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central + Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed integrations
Today’s post wants to give an overview of a successfully deployed scenario of a geo-distributed integration between Dynamics 365 Business … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and direct printing
This seems to be one of the hottest “problems” when using Dynamics 365 Business Central SaaS: actually you cannot directly … More
WPC 2018: Dynamics 365 Business Central is here and you should join me!
Yes… Dynamics 365 Business Central appears on the list of topics of the main Microsoft developer-oriented conference in Italy. From … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Extensions Development + NAV on Azure Workshop on Microsoft Italy (stage 2)
After the full stage 1, I’ll wait you tomorrow again in Microsoft Italy in Milan for the second slot of … More
Serverless processing with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Azure Functions
Deploying Microsoft Dynamics NAV to the Azure cloud (IaaS) is now one of our first proposal on every new customer. … More
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