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Agent Loop | Azure Logic Apps Just Got Smarter

Microsoft Announcement Microsoft has just introduced something quite revolutionary into the world of integration: Agent Loop, a new capability in Azure Logic Apps that lets you build AI-powered agents directly into your workflows. On the surface, it might seem like another incremental feature. But …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Logic App | Access Key Revocation and Regeneration

Overview In previous articles I have subtly referenced risks and best practices regarding HTTP triggered workflows and their use of Access Keys for security, such as: Some Potential Risks: If a Key is leaked, it can be used by anyone who obtains it to call your Logic App Workflow. If a Key has …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Friday, February 28, 2025

Logic App | Try-Catch Pattern, Nested Scopes, And Compensating Transaction Pattern

The Try-Catch Pattern Following the idea of defensive programming or as I like to call it for Logic Apps (being low code): defensive processing, it is considered good practice to wrap your workflows in a try-catch pattern to handle the unexpected. The pattern makes use of a mixture of Run After …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Key Vault Reference | Logic and Function Apps using User-Assigned Managed Identity

Overview Prior to the Christmas break I was involved in writing some integrations that used a mixture of Logic Apps Standard and Function Apps. It was agreed as part of the architecture that user-assigned identities would be the best fit. As part of the implementation, I observed that the …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Monday, January 6, 2025

Easy Auth | Standard Logic App with Azure API Management

Overview The recent work that I have been doing with Standard Logic Apps and linking them as backends to Azure API Management has relied on the use of the Logic App Workflow SAS key for security. This is a valid authentication approach, but there are risks that you need to be aware of as well as …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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Has a passion for creating software [especially solution integrations] that help others execute their jobs faster and more efficiently.

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