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 […]

Please note! This way can still be used but it is MUCH simpler to do it directly from APIm in the portal. Simply try to add a certificate in a Keyvault and APIm will ask you if you would like to add the access policies needed. If you have access rights in the Keyvault (the […]

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 […]

Updated This blog post was updated on September 10th 2019, with the new functionality added to Azure. It is now possible to share Gateways between Azure Subcriptions. 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, […]

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 […]