June 14, 2021

Open API Specification in Azure Functions

After a very long “winter” I’m back. 🙂 To start with I’ll be sharing in this post how I did an Azure Function implementation with custom routes to show in Logic Apps. So, the client that I’m working for requested to me to create an alternative to executing Liquid maps in Azure Functions instead of the Integration Account. As I...

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April 23, 2020

Azure DevOps Publish and Download Artifacts

For the past couple weeks I’ve been playing a lot with YAML Azure Pipelines. And it’s not as straightforward as I would like I can say. It takes a lot of work to align all tasks, templates, variables and so on. This post is to talk about one minor thing, but that took me a couple hours to fix. It’s...

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April 17, 2020

Creating a service connection in Azure DevOps

It has been a long time since I posted here. It has a lot of reasons why is that like having my parents for a whole month, new responsibilities at work, the whole corona virus driving all of us nuts, but that shouldn’t be this way, so I’ll come back and post at least once a month again. To start...

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October 24, 2019

Creating validation filters for WebAPI

While working in the development of new APIs for the organization that I work for, it came up with a couple of requirements to validate the input that the API consumer was passing in the request. There are several ways of doing this, but in the WebAPI world, something that is reusable was the focus here. For that, I used...

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September 25, 2019

Azure Daily Budget Report Generator

Since we started using some Azure Services in our department, it came also the need to stay on top of the costs of the things we are doing. I went right away to the Cost Management + Billing Center to find out that while it provides the Budget feature where we can send alerts if it reaches certain thresholds, I...

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June 5, 2019

Creating a WebAPI End-To-End

In the past couple of months, I’ve been studying about WebAPI and how to create API integration components using this framework from Microsoft. While learning this came also the learning of a lot of good libraries to help me doing a bunch of stuff like the mapping of entities, creating unit tests, integration tests, logging and so on. In this...

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May 2, 2019

Analyzing transactions in real-time with Event Hubs and Stream Analytics

Before going into the subject of this post, I would like to share that I changed jobs this past month. I accepted an exciting position to work for ASB Bank as Integration Specialist and will be working with large volume transactions operations in the integrations throughout all the systems they have. I will keep posting here maybe switching a little...

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March 13, 2019

Logic Apps 2018 Retrospective

Last year before heading off to a well-deserved vacation with my family, I did my last presentation of the year on the Integration Down Under user group. If you want to see this presentation, use the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKRItJz1e40&t=1615s. I basically separated all the updates that were happening in Logic Apps throughout the year by the Microsoft conferences that we had,...

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February 14, 2019

Installing the Powershell Extension for BizTalk Administration

I’ve been working in the past weeks to setup a completely new BizTalk 2016 environments for a client, and I found myself in a situation where I will need to create the hosts, host instances and adapter for all environments (DEV, TEST, UAT, PROD). These tasks are very time consuming and having to do it over and over for four...

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November 28, 2018

Adding an API key to an Azure Function Proxy using Logic Apps

In the last project I’ve been working on, I got a requirement from a client where he wanted to consume an API exposed from Logic Apps with the security of an API key only.  The Logic App HTTP Connector This is easily achievable out-of-the-box in Logic Apps by using the access key appended in the URL of a Logic Apps...

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