Let Application Insights focus on real problems and not missing data (404) in your APIs

Application Insights is a great tool for collecting insights and telemetry for your Azure (or for that matter almost any) resources such as websites, console apps, apis etc. There are cases however where default settings may log errors that are undesirable. Worst case scenario is that it could hide the real problems or have them… Continue reading Let Application Insights focus on real problems and not missing data (404) in your APIs

Elastic Database Pools – purpose, when and why

One great addition to the SQL database PaaS service in Azure is the ability to use Elastic Database Pools to share capacity between Azure SQL Databases in order to make best use of the capacity at hand and to lower total costs. I will highlight the benefits and scenarios and what to think about when setting it… Continue reading Elastic Database Pools – purpose, when and why

Azure Service Bus with BizTalk SB-Messaging Adapter – This client is not supported for a partitioned entity.

This post will cover a problem that many people will run into when using the BizTalk 2013 SB-Messaging adapter to access Azure Service Bus queues. First of all I wish to claim that Azure Service Bus is a really good way to enable cheap, asynchronous, highly available communication for a corporation and its external partners.… Continue reading Azure Service Bus with BizTalk SB-Messaging Adapter – This client is not supported for a partitioned entity.