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How to automate Project Build numbers in VSTS

Posted by Matt Corr on 30 November 2017

CICD, Team City, VSTS, Blog, Technology

If you have migrated over to VSTS (or TFS 2017) from TeamCity, you may have a noticed a useful feature missing.

Now VSTS defaults the build number format to a revision number in the format similar to as shown below.

So whats the problem?

This is fine if you are happy with an incrementing number across all projects....

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Preparing Azure Logic Apps for CI/CD using ARM Templates

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 11 October 2017

Azure, Continuous Integration, Logic Apps, ARM Templates, Blog, Technology

Introduction

Logic Apps can be created from the Azure Portal, or using Visual Studio. This works well if you want to create one Logic App at a time. However, if you want to deploy the same Logic App in multiple environments, e.g. Dev, Test, or Production, you want to do it in an automated way. Azure Resource Manager...

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Monitoring Configuration Drifts on Azure with Event Grid and Logic Apps

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 06 September 2017

Logic Apps, Azure Event Grid, Azure Automation, Azure Resource Manager, Blog, Technology

Introduction

Azure Event Grid is a first-class and hyperscale eventing platform with intelligent filtering that has recently been released in preview and is a real game changer to build event-driven serverless apps on Azure. There have been many other posts, including this one from my colleague Dan Toomey, which...

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When to Use an Azure App Service Environment v2 (App Service Isolated)

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 08 August 2017

App Service Environment, App Service Isolated, App Services, Architecture, Azure, Blog, Vision & Digital Transformation, Technology

Introduction

The Azure App Service Environment (ASE) is a premium feature offering of the Azure App Services which is fully isolated, highly scalable, and runs on a customer's virtual network. On an ASE you can host Web Apps, API Apps, Mobile Apps and Azure Functions. The first generation of the App Service...

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Why integration is key to digital transformation

Posted by Dean Robertson on 18 July 2017

Integration, Blog, Vision & Digital Transformation

Technology is advancing faster than ever before and you are expected to keep up with its progress. That is at the heart of digital transformation. Your customers and staff alike have devoured a social media world where there’s an app for everything. Now, customers expect your business to interact with them with as...

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The Logic Apps Webhook Action and the Correlation Identifier Pattern

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 17 July 2017

Development, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Twilio, Logic Apps, Webhook, Blog, Technology

Introduction

In many business scenarios, there is the need to implement long-running processes which first send a message to a second process and then pause and wait for an asynchronous response before they continue. Being this an asynchronous communication, the challenge is to correlate the response to the original...

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Triggering an Azure Logic App by SMS messages with Twilio

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 05 July 2017

Development, Twilio, Logic Apps, Blog, Technology

Introduction

SMS messaging has been a widely adopted way of communication over the last decades, not only for people but for organisations as well. Even though nowadays there are many messaging apps that are more popular and flexible than plain SMS, there are still scenarios in which businesses find SMS messaging a...

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Transforming JSON Objects in Logic Apps

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 18 May 2017

Azure, Development, Enterprise Integration Patterns, iPaaS, JSON, Logic Apps, Blog, Technology

Introduction

Many integration scenarios require translating messages from one data model to another. This is described in the Message Translator Enterprise Integration Pattern. Some of these might be:

  • Translation between two different proprietary data models
  • Translation between a proprietary data model and an...
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Implementing the Polling Consumer Pattern using Azure Logic Apps

Posted by Paco de la Cruz on 11 May 2017

Azure, Development, Enterprise Integration Patterns, iPaaS, Logic Apps, Polling, Blog, Technology

Introduction

When implementing integration projects, it's quite common that upstream systems don't have the capabilities to push messages to downstream systems, or that due to different constraints or non-functional requirements, the receivers are required to pull for messages from those systems. Gregor Hohpe...

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Displaying Team City build status in Octopus Deploy

Posted by Matt Corr on 18 February 2017

Octopus, Team City, Blog, Technology

Introduction

For our on-premises deployment of our integration applications, Mexia often look for the ideal tools to utilise to deliver the best value for our clients and to minimise time/effort wastage and provide developers a pleasant experience.

A combination we find that works well for Integration projects is ...

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