Andrew Wilson's Blog

Problem Space I recently had to troubleshoot an issue where two App Registrations in the same tenant had the same display name. Azure allows this. Operationally, it hurts. When names are duplicated, diagnosis gets slower and riskier because engineers cannot trust what they see first in the portal. …

⚠️ NOTE Microsoft guidance is clear that Azure RBAC should be used for data plane authorization moving forward, instead of legacy access policies Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) vs. access policies (legacy) Provide access to Key Vault keys, certificates, and secrets with Azure …

Problem Space As Bicep adoption grows, so does the complexity of the environments and teams using it. Without clear authoring practices, Bicep codebases can quickly become inconsistent, hard to maintain, and error-prone. In this post I wanted to share some practical authoring practices and …

Introduction I have been writing integration tests using MSTest recently and have encountered the need to control the level of parallelism required. MSTest, by default, runs your tests in parallel to maximise performance and reduce overall test execution time. This is great for independent unit …

Introduction When building integration workflows with Azure Logic Apps Standard, there’s often a need to track custom business events that sit between pure technical telemetry and business process monitoring. Recently, while authoring a Logic App Standard workflow, I needed to track the total …