This thing drove me crazy. Batsh*t insane, but it is all better now because I found the solution. First off, thanks to Mark Brimble for volunteering his help on how he solved this issue as well as a very useful blog post on XML to JSON in Liquid templates. The issue You need to call […]

There is always this thing with Logic Apps and network-based security. You need the big ISE version of it to make that happen. The cost of that might be too high for your needs. Instead of giving up on Logic Apps and turning to Azure Functions you should consider the options available to you. I […]

There are a lot of uses for the Azure Keyvault. It really is a very useful service, and you should look into using it. One awesome way of using it is to store certificates. It gives you the added bonus of setting up contacts on who to e-mail when the certs are about to expire. […]

Calling Logic Apps from Azure API management is easy and a great way to bring some order to your APIs. However, when you call a Logic App, it returns a lot of headers that contain information that you want to hide from your API consumers. In order to do that, simply add the following to […]

A quick search of the internet gives you inconsequential results for how to get the querystring in a standard request-response Logic App. Can it be done? Yes! How? Here is how: The queries object There is an object called “queries”. This object contains all of the querystring that is sent to the logic app. This […]

This post is mostly a repro for the Logic App team. Converting to string If I have a Logic App that uses a JSON schema, and that schema contains a property of type NUMBER, the conversion to string changes the value in a very strange way. If I feel in the number 0.000092 it gets […]

Purpose This blog post seeks to fully explain the planning, installation, and maintenance of the On-Premises Data Gateway, by Microsoft, with a focus is on Enterprise Integration usage, and not on other features, like integration with PowerBI. Out of scope The post assumes a basic knowledge of the gateway, the technical aspects of how it […]

There is an elephant in the room, or at least a logotype with an elephant. The product is called PostgreSQL and is a capable, open source, relational database engine. More info can be found here. To tame this beast, you can find several ways of hosting it, AWS and Azure both have offerings and you […]

Everyone knows two things about saving money on Azure VMs: 1, chose a smaller size and 2, turn it off when you are not using it. It turns out that the second one has an additional demand: you need to not use premium disks. What are premium disks? These are great! Great for performance and […]

Executive summary You cannot succeed if you simply offer a service. You need to build an app or a concept that is 80% repeatable. You need to add some intellectual property to your Azure based solution and then sell that in a nice package. Changes to the incentive program is coming and they are looking […]