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Azure Communication Services - an overview

There are such cloud services that can drastically accelerate your innovation and reduce your time to market by providing you with functionalities that are simple, ready-to-use and that allow you to add a real added-value to your users. Azure Communication Services is one of those. In this article, we’ll have an overview of what Azure Communication Services (“ACS” for short) is, what functionalities it provides and what are some of the use cases in which it can be leveraged.

List app registrations with credentials about to expire

App registrations is a mechanism in Azure AD allowing to work with an application and its permissions. It’s an object in Azure AD that represents the application, its redirect URI (where to redirect users after they have signed in), its logout URL (where to redirect users after they’ve signed out), API access and custom application roles for managing permissions to users and apps.

Azure Container Apps - an overview

Over the years, containerization has grown in popularity among organizations and will continue to grow. For example, containerization is slowly becoming the de facto approach when it comes to building applications following the microservices architecture. It is undeniable that containerization has a lot of advantages, but these advantages come at a cost.

Scaling based on the number of messages in an Azure Service Bus queue

One of the most notable advantages of the Cloud is the ability to scale resources to meet demand. We then scale out or up when the demand increases, and we scale in or down when the demand decreases. For the record, scaling out / in refers to increasing or decreasing the number of instances of a given resource, whereas scaling up / down refers to increasing or decreasing the capacity (CPU, Ram, Disk, I/O performance) or a given instance.

Integrating Log Analytics in Serverless360

Recently we launched features to provide support for Log Analytics in Serverless360. Log Analytics workspaces are used by a lot of different features within the Azure Monitor stack and by providing the ability to link a Log Analytics Workspace to a Business Application in Serverless360 we see that it provides a way you can allow a support user the ability to view and run queries against your log data without needing to be an Azure Expert.

Application Insights health check with Serverless360

Recently we launched features to provide support for App Insights in Serverless360. App Insights is one of the coolest features on Azure because it can integrate so easily with many different features such as: In Serverless360 our core principle is to democratize the support experience for your application.

Azure Service Bus Logging with BAM - Walk-through

In a previous article, we talked about how you could use BAM to do advanced management of dead lettered messages on the Azure Service Bus using a scenario like below. This article will show how you can set up this kind of example. Let’s assume your Order Processing functions are already in place, and your starting point is that sometimes you will get dead-lettered messages, and we need to implement the Send message to the BAM logic app and configure Serverless360.

Feature Spotlight - Business Applications

Serverless360 is a Cloud management platform engineered for Microsoft Azure. Everything you need to empower your Azure Support teams with more meaningful features and deliver effortless support. Visualize your Business Applications, spot any issues, fix them, Take advantage of Serverless360 to improve the overall operational efficiency of your Azure Team!