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How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps: Using default capabilities - Avoiding too many condition actions (Part III)

Welcome to the third part of this series of blog posts on How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps. In this series of five blogs, I will cover throwing custom exceptions in Logic Apps. I will cover the following topics: In this third approach, we are going to do a considerable fine-tuning of the previous approach, keeping the same capability to define custom error messages but redesigning the business logic in order to minimize the number of actions and optimize performance.

The True Cost of Moving Fast & Breaking Things - An Engineering Perspective

Building a prosperous business in a cloud environment is complex, to say the least. Millions of dev hours went to waste (not to mention tens of millions of dollars) because organizations just wanted to “run fast” and deliver value - there is a price tag however, a big one. And you’re paying for it! Building a multi-tenant efficient and stable cloud environment that can work at scale without breaking and wasting resources is almost impossible.

Revamping Azure Storage: A Look at the 2023 Updates

As we continue to journey through 2023, one of the highlights in the tech world has been the evolution of Azure Storage, Microsoft’s cloud storage solution. Azure Storage, known for its robustness and adaptability, has rolled out several exciting updates this year, each of them designed to enhance user experience, improve security, and provide more flexibility and control over data management.

Crash Course on Building and Monitoring AWS CDK Apps

In this webinar, learn how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to build a complex microservice-based application and implement distributed tracing to monitor it. You'll be able to follow along with Thorsten Höeger, Cloud Automation Evangelist, and AWS CDK expert Michele Mancioppi, as they live-code an application that uses AWS Lambda with Node.js, and Amazon ECS with Java. Once built, you'll learn how you can apply distributed tracing to any AWS CDK-based application, in just a single line of code.

Snowflake Review: Why CloudZero Went With Snowflake

Every day, CloudZero helps SaaS companies understand their cloud environments and take consistent steps forward on the journey to cloud cost maturity. We discuss this a lot on our blog. What we talk about far less frequently is our own journey. One of the reasons CloudZero can help other businesses grow, change, and adapt is because we know what it’s like to shift strategies and try new things that are a little bit scary or unknown.

Everything You Need to Know About Google Cloud Logs

As the affordable choice for cloud computing, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is catching up to its competitors, like AWS and Microsoft Azure. As a business, you need the speed and scalability that the cloud provides, but you want to limit your costs to ensure you hit revenue targets. With GCP, you found a digital services business partner to help you meet your business objectives, a technology that gives you the service availability you want at the speed you need.

CloudWatch Logs to S3: The Easy Way

Many organizations use Amazon CloudWatch to analyze log data, but find that restrictive CloudWatch log retention issues hold them back from effective troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. As a result, many companies may be looking for effective ways to export CloudWatch logs to S3 automatically. Let’s look at some of the reasons why you might want to export CloudWatch logs to S3 in the first place, along with some Amazon-native and open-source tools to help you with the process.