When approaching what I consider to be a pretty straightforward problem, I always think to myself, “I can’t be the first one to have had this issue.” Not only that, on the day of AI, when I think a task should take minutes, I actually spend hours trying to figure it out. Case in point, … Read More
Category: Architecture
Accessing Custom Fields with JIRA Webhooks
When I was starting to work with the JIRA Webhooks, one problem I started to run into was understanding what some of the fields actually were. I vaguely remembered this from my years on customizing JIRA, where all fields are given a very unique field name because the level of customization is so extensive. Case … Read More
Creating WebHooks with JIRA
Similar to the posts I’ve written about creating Webhooks for AzureDevOps and Git, you can do the same for Jira. To get started, you need to navigate to System Settings and then down to Webhooks. The amount of information and events that you can extract from JIRA is quite significant. In the below screenshot, I … Read More
Creating WebHooks with GIT
Similar to Azure DevOps, you can set up a WebHook in GIT to collect data when changes are made to the system. Webhooks in GIT are not global and apply to each project you configure them on. Configuring Your Webhook To start, you create your HTTP “listener” URL and add that to GIT. It’s important … Read More
How to Best Leverage your Platform Investments
Many (many years ago, I was doing work with OCS (Office Communications Server) and writing code to connect and automate messages with it. That system was completely built on a TLS certificate security protocol from end-to-end, from client to server to API. No matter what you did, you could not escape it; you had to … Read More
Using Azure Automation with VS Code
When using Azure Runbooks, you can work on your changes through the built-in online IDE or you have the choice of editing them via VS Code. When you edit in VS Code you will be immediately prompted to install the Azure Automation extension that will enable you to connect to your runbooks and edit them. … Read More
Using Azure Automation Accounts
If you haven’t been using Azure Automation Accounts, they are a great way to script out nightly tasks in your environment and have them running as a Managed Identity (no users or passwords). Your PowerShell scripts run within a Runbook which can be a collection of scripts that can be scheduled and ordered accordingly. A … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Summary
Over the past few posts, we’ve discussed several different architecture options for designing and maintaining PowerApps Solutions. The All-In-One Solution The Feature-Based Solution The Team-Based Solution The Component-Based Solution The question now becomes which one is the best that I should use every single time. Well, the beauty of architecture is that there are many … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Team Solution
The last solution architecture we are going to look at is very similar to the Feature Solution Architecture but instead puts a twist on it – the Team Solution Architecture. In the Team Solution model, solutions are deployed by the teams that create them. The teams can be of any size, but generally, their deliveries … Read More
PowerApps Solution Architecture: The Feature Solution
We’ve looked at the All-In-One and Component Solution Architectures and now we’re going to talk about the Feature Solution model. As shown below, the feature solution model is based upon areas (features) that you deem to make sense to your organization. Although Marketing and Service are highlighted below as PowerApps terms, these features could include … Read More