If you have Azure Functions running on the Linux Consumption plan, it’s time to start planning for a migration. On … More
Tag: Serverless
Can I use AI to create and deploy an Azure Logic Apps with Business Central connector?
Today I’ve decided to do with AI a test that I’ve never done before: creating an Azure Logic App workflow … More
Azure Logic Apps: Built-in vs Managed Azure Blob Storage Connector.
When creating workflows with Azure Logic Apps that uses the Azure Blob Storage Connector, you have the possibility to select … More
Using Azure AI Foundry Model Router in your AI projects.
Some months ago Microsoft introduced into its AI toolset in Azure AI Foundry an interesting service called Model Router. The … More
Azure Logic Apps: are you handling large blobs? Keep memory usage under control.
When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (and generally speaking on a lot of other serverless projects) it’s quite common … More
High performance workflows with Azure Logic Apps: using Azure SQL as storage provider.
In the past I wrote many posts and also done a lots of sessions at different conferences about how to … More
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
Azure Logic Apps: create Standard Logic App projects in Visual Studio Code from Azure portal export
How many times you had the need to create a new Azure Logic App workflow starting from an existing one? … More
Do you have strict security requirements for your workflows? Azure Logic Apps is the solution.
Low-code workflows for integrations between systems are a quite common scenario in many projects, from small to enterprise companies. And … 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 Logic Apps: stateful and stateless workflows overview and performance comparison.
Azure Logic Apps Standard is a new deployment option for creating and running automated workflows in a single-tenant environment. This … More
Azure Logic Apps Standard: worflow’s run retention history configuration.
When you create an Azure Logic Apps Standard workflow for your integrations (maybe with your Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP, … More
Restrict Azure Logic Apps’s workflows access only to Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Some week ago I wrote an article explaining how you can restrict Azure Logic Apps workflows access to certain IP … More
Running inline C# scripts in Azure Logic Apps workflows
Last week I wrote a post explaining the new Inline Powershell action available in Azure Logic Apps standard. With this … More
Do you have again Classic Azure Storage Accounts? These are the last days for migrate and avoid service disruptions.
On 31 August 2024, Microsoft will retire the Cloud Services (classic) deployment model (the announcement was made by Microsoft in March 2022). Before that date, you’ll need … More
Are you ready for the most mystical conference of the year?
3 days until DynamicsMinds 2024 in Portoroz (Slovenia) starts, a 4 days community conference covering Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power … 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
Handling company’s carbon footprint with Business Central and Azure
Corporate environmental responsibility has become a cornerstone of modern business strategy. Companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their commitment … More
Azure Spring Clean: Deploying Azure OpenAI in the enterprise world.
This post is my contribution to the Azure Spring Clean 2024 event, an initiative to promote well managed Azure tenants. … More
REST APIs and the importance of Versioning.
A REST API (also known as RESTful API) is an application programming interface that conforms to the constraints of REST architecture and it’s … 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 Basic Load Balancer: it’s time to plan the update to Standard.
Azure Load Balancer is a high-performance, ultra-low-latency Layer 4 load-balancing service (inbound and outbound) for all UDP and TCP protocols. It’s … 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 Logic Apps: securing HTTP Triggers with Microsoft Entra ID authentication
Lots of time ago I wrote a post about securing the HTTP triggered workflows created with Power Automate. You can … 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
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
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Power Automate and multiple record changes limitation
Last week I received a message from a partner with a problem related to Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power … More
Azure Logic Apps: retrieving the exception details of an action group in a flow
In Azure Logic Apps (and in Power Automate too) to execute actions only if another group of actions succeed or … 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
Azure Service Bus: introducing partitioning in Premium tier
If you was at my recent training about extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Azure services in Microsof Italy or … 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
SWIFT message processing using Azure Logic Apps
Few days ago the Azure Logic Apps Team announced the Public Preview of SWIFT MT encoder and decoder for Azure … 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
Securing your HTTP triggered flow in Power Automate: suppress workflow headers in response
The “When an HTTP request is received” trigger is one of my favourite building blocks for creating serverless processes with … More
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