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As a consultant, I have spent most of my time over the last 10 years on the road. However, the COVID pandemic changed my work situation overnight. Maybe my travel routine was wrong all these years? Maybe the digital nomad…

Previously, we looked into deploying Azure resources uing infrastructure-as-code using Pulumi. In this post, I am walking you through creating the C# (or TypeScript etc) code from manual prototyping and proof-of-concept deployments in Azure to making them using Pulumi.

When swapping between debugging using a workbench and deploying to a SharePoint developer tenant, we need to toggle the –ship flags. Also, we need to chain the Gulp commands. Just running gulp package-solution –ship does not perform the entire chain.

To handle Infrastructure-as-Code workflows, I use a product called Pulumi. It is built on top of the open-source platform Terraform. Pulumi handles versioning and recreation of cloud resources, handles state and shows a preview of what changes will occur.

Example using Altova MapForce to generate an XLST 2.0 mapping function and deploying this into an Azure logic app for use in an integration service.

Azure Logic apps has powerful capabilities when joined with an integration account. This allows us to do advanced data mapping transformations. In this example, I will use Altova MapForce to design the mapping between the two file formats.

As we provide server-to-server APIs and expose business logic and data to partners and developers, we end up with a large amount of services on different systems, platforms, endpoints and domains. It can be challenging to keep order and structure…

As an update to "Ensuring single instance of event handlers", I wrote a plug-in to handle this as well. The point is, you could use off and on -but what if there are several handlers? You will risk overwriting other…