When we are designing a message-based integration solution, one of the first things we need to define is how the application data are going to be serialised into messages, so they can be transmitted to other applications. The Message Construction Enterprise Integration Patterns provide documented knowledge that can...

In January 2019, Azure Functions Team has released a new version of its runtime, 2.0.12265.

I wasn’t able to believe what that meant at the first place.

Does that mean we now can get rid of the infamous static modifier from both classes and methods?

In fact, Fabio from Azure Functions Team showed a demo at Ignite...

Introduction

If you are reading this post, chances are that you know that things can go wrong and thus logging can be very useful when a solution is in production to monitor or troubleshoot it. But, not all logs are equal. While you can have enough information available, unstructured logging can be hard to read,...

Introduction

Azure Durable Functions have support for different patterns, which enable us to build serverless and stateful applications without worrying about the state management implementation details. One of these useful patterns is the Asynchronous Http APIs. This pattern comes in handy when client applications...

Introduction

Azure currently has two service offerings of serverless compute: Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions. Until recently, one could argue that Azure Functions were code triggered by events while Logic Apps were event-triggered workflows. However, that changed after the release of Azure Durable Functions...

Introduction

This is a post part of a series of implementing serverless approval workflows on Azure:

1. Approval Workflow on Logic Apps with Twilio
2. Approval Workflow on Azure Durable Functions and SendGrid
3. Approval Workflow on Azure Durable Functions and Slack (this)

Recently, I published a post about implementing an

Introduction

This post is part of a series about implementing serverless approval workflows on Azure:

1. Approval Workflow on Logic Apps with Twilio
2. Approval Workflow on Azure Durable Functions and SendGrid (this)
3. Approval Workflow on Azure Durable Functions and Slack

Durable Functions is a new (in preview at the time...

Dependency Injections on Azure Functions are not very intuitive. I’ve written many blog posts about dependency management on Azure Functions to improve testability and this was my latest one. However, they are mostly about V1, which supports .NET Framework. Azure Functions V2 is now on public preview and I’m going to...

As one of serverless families in Azure, Cosms DB is becoming very popular. In many development scenarios, Cosmos DB actually replaces existing RDBMS because it requires relatively lower cost for maintenance, and is easy to use. Another serverless family, Azure Functions, also provides triggers and bindings for Cosmos...

In many information system development scenarios, including integration scenarios, handling date/time value is always problematic. If your information systems reside in your office or data centre located in your area, that won’t bring about too much trouble. However, if your organisation runs applications in several...