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Custom Distributed Tracing and Observability Practices in Azure Functions – Part 1: Introduction

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 19 February 2021

Azure Functions, Microsoft, Application Insights, Microsoft Azure

Introduction

As developers, we tend to focus our efforts on building and shipping our services and apps to production, but it’s quite common that we forget to think about what happens after go-live. Once we reach production, the solution becomes someone else’s problem. But, even if we could build bug-free services,...

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Platform Management: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 10 December 2020

Azure, Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Logic App

When implementing modern application integration solutions, we rely on platforms that abstract many of the challenges inherent to these types of solutions. While the Enterprise Integration Patterns previously covered in this series describe architectural and implementation patterns, the Platform Management patterns...

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Message Transformation: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 07 October 2020

Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid

It is quite common that integration solutions interact with diverse applications, each with disparate data models and heterogeneous formats. In this post, we will discuss the Message Transformation patterns and how these can be implemented on Azure to overcome the challenges derived from working with different...

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Message Routing: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 09 September 2020

Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid

In the previous post of the series on the Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure, I explored the Messaging Endpoint patterns, which abstract integration interfaces from the application internals when building messaging-based integration solutions. In this post, I will cover the Message Routing patterns on Azure,...

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Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Durable Entities and Azure Durable Functions 2.0

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 22 October 2019

Azure Functions, Serverless, Technology, Azure Durable Functions, Microsoft Azure, Durable Entities

This post is part of a series

  1. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions
  2. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Durable Functions (this)

In a previous post, I shared how you can deploy a Serverless Request Bin using Azure Functions. I also shared how I built it using a memory cache as a persistence...

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Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 26 September 2019

Azure Functions, Serverless, Technology, Dependency Injection, Microsoft Azure

This post is part of a series

  1. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Azure Functions (this)
  2. Your Own Serverless Request Bin with Durable Entities and Azure Durable Functions 2.0

If you have developed or consumed HTTP APIs or webhooks, chances are that you have had the need of troubleshooting and inspecting HTTP...

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TimeKeeper: Using Azure Logic Apps to generate updates from Tempo in Jira

Posted by Kris Barton on 28 June 2019

Azure, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, automation, innovation, transparency, TimeKeeper

Two of the more consistent problems faced by service management professionals are transparency around billed hours and a lack of automation within this space. At Deloitte Operate, we leverage Jira Tempo to keep track of our clients’ billed hours and current utilisation levels. 

Currently, Jira Tempo lacks...

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Messaging Endpoints: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 05 June 2019

Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Integration Services

In the previous post of the series, I described how messages can be transmitted from a sender application to intended receiver applications through Messaging Channels, and how the Azure Integration Services can be leveraged to implement these Enterprise Integration Patterns. Messaging Endpoints are the application...

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Messaging Channels: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 09 May 2019

Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, messaging, Azure Integration Services

In the previous post of the series, I covered how application data are to be serialised and packaged into messages so they can be transmitted between applications. In this post, I’ll describe the Messaging Channels patterns, which focus on solving the challenges of transmitting messages from a sender application to...

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Message Construction: Enterprise Integration Patterns on Azure Integration Services

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 10 April 2019

Azure Functions, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure iPaaS

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...

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