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Year 2016 in review, Integration is still relevant

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Last few hours before 2016 ends and what a year it has been as so many things happened. The year started off with finalizing and publishing an eBook on extensibility of BizTalk Server, which is available for free. My buddy Saravana made available through BizTalk360 website. The publishing of the book marked the first major milestone in 2016. The collaboration of Eldert , Johann and myself as authors and three awesome reviewers in Mark , James and Sandro delivered a 150-page book on the power of .NET and BizTalk. With the release of the book, Eldert and myself embarked on a speaking tour to promote the book, which we did in front of the BizTalk User Group in the Netherlands, online through integration Monday and in Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg). Thanks Mikael , Johan and Peter !!! In the spring (May) I presented at Integrate 2016 on IoT end to end leveraging the Microsoft Azure Platform services. And this was in front of almost 400 people. Who would

Microsoft Azure Function GA

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In this blog post we will discuss an Azure Service called Azure Functions . This service has recently (15 th of November) gone GA (General Available) and provides a capability of running small pieces of code in Azure. With functions, you do not have to deal that much with infrastructure, it’s the responsibility of Azure or an application (see Azure Functions Overview ). The functionality you develop in a browser i.e. in the Azure Portal ( Function App or https://functions.azure.com/ ), test it and done. The only aspects other than the code are scalability and pricing. Basic Walkthrough of creating an Azure Function In the Azure Portal, you can navigate/search for Function App. And click on Function App. Next, you’ll see a button Create and once you press that a pane will appear. In this pane, you specify the name for the app, select a subscription, create or add to the existing resource group, choose a hosting plan, location and choose a storage account. Hit create