On 14 May 2024, support for .NET 7 in Azure Functions will end. Your Function apps that are currently using .NET … More
Tag: Serverless
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
Me @ Directions EMEA 2022
In a month or so (exact starting date is November 9, 2022) a new edition of Directions EMEA conference will … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central and integration workflows: why Azure Logic Apps are often a better choice than Power Automate
When talking about integrations between Dynamics 365 Business Central and external applications, in lots of real-world projects I see that … More
Azure Logic Apps and Recurrence Trigger: the “At these minutes” parameter mistery.
Yesterday I received a support request from a partner regarding a Timer Triggered Azure Logic App workflow. For who don’t … 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
Using Azure File Share: best practices
Azure Files is essentially a fully managed serverless file share hosted on Azure accessible via the industry standard protocols like … 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
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
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
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
Using Azure Logic Apps for creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central container on Azure Container Instances
A week ago I’ve written a post explaining how to create a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container on Azure … More
Azure SQL Serverless tier: a way to save cost for your workloads in the cloud
When going to the cloud, saving costs while maximizing performances is always a goal to reach but sometimes also not … More
New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released
While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central Development Quick Start Guide is out!
At the beginning of this year I was preparing the content for the first of a serie of workshops for … 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