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Real World Azure Serverless Use Case to Implement a B2B API
Recently I wrote a guest post on the Serverless 360 blog talking about how you can implement an API using Functions on Azure. Real World Azure Serverless Use Case to Implement a B2B API
Read More »Considerations for Hardening API’s Built with Azure API Management + Azure Functions
In the current feature set available on Azure one of the most common patterns for implementing an API is to use a combination of Azure Functions to act as the back end of the API where the bulk of the work is done and then to use Azure API Management…
Read More »Custom CRM Portals Super-Charged by an Azure Data Layer
I wanted to talk a little about the architecture I designed recently for a Dynamics CRM + Portal + Integration project. In the initial stages of the project a number of options were considered for a Portal (or group of portals) which would support staff, students and other users which…
Read More »Serverless vs Codeless in the Microsoft Integration Platform
While chatting to Jeff Holland on integration Monday this evening I mentioned some thinking I had been doing around how to articulate the various products within the Microsoft Integration Platform in terms of their codeless vs Serverless nature. Below is a rough diagram with me brain dumping a rough idea…
Read More »Create a hybrid API when you have brittle underlying LOB applications
Recently I have been thinking about a sample use case where you may want to expose legacy applications via a hybrid API but you have the challenge that the underlying LOB applications are not really fit for purpose to be the underlying sub-systems for a hybrid API. In this case…
Read More »Returning Static Data from Azure APIM Operations using Blob Storage
Recently I was working with Azure API Management creating an API and I needed to create an operation which would return some relatively constant/static data. Lets say for example this was some configuration data such as a list of settings an app could use. With this scenario the challenge is…
Read More »Application Insights for Integration Developers
Recently I presented an Integration Monday session where I talked about how integration developers could leverage Application Insights on Azure to be able to improve the monitoring experience of the typical components we have and I also talked about product positioning and how it might relate to other monitoring and…
Read More »Consume PowerBI API from BizTalk Server
I recently wrote a sample for a WCF behaviour extension to allow you to consume an API in BizTalk if it was secured with Azure Active Directory. In this video I have used that sample to show how you can use the Power BI API from BizTalk Server in a…
Read More »BizTalk WCF Behaviour Extension for WAAD Authentication
Recently I created a proof of concept using a WCF behaviour extension to consume services which require authentication against Azure Active Directory. The idea here is that if you want to consume an API and wish to use a service account credential you can configure the service account in Azure…
Read More »Microsoft Technology for each Integration Capability
Ive been thinking a little about some of the different technologies in the Microsoft stack and how they overlay on the different capabilities I need within the integration architectures I have been involved with over the years. Below I have tried to list as many of the different integration capabilities…
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