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