Stephen W Thomas Using BizTalk Server as your Foundation to the Clouds Azure Hybrid Integration Architect Using BizTalk Server as your Foundation to the Clouds

About Me Consulting for almost 20 years Working with BizTalk Server since 2001 Working with Logic Apps for over 2 years 13 year Microsoft MVP Stephen@StephenWThomas.com @StephenWThomas

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Session Layout Phase 1 – Why BizTalk and Logic Apps INTEGRATE 2018 Session Layout Phase 1 – Why BizTalk and Logic Apps Phase 2 – Friction Factors

Phase 1 – Why BizTalk & Logic Apps

Why? Not for all scenarios Use connectors not included with BizTalk 100% on premise Low latency No plans to ever do anything outside of the data center Use connectors not included with BizTalk Reduce the load on current BizTalk Servers Plan for the future Save hardware and software costs “be cool like the .Net guys”

How? On-premise data gateway Service Bus queues Logic Apps Adapter API calls

Scenario – Need Connector Social media monitoring (use with Cognitive Services)

Scenario – Need Connector Social media monitoring Customer communications

Scenario – Need Connector Social media monitoring Customer communications Cross team communication

Scenario – Need Connector Social media monitoring Customer communications Cross team communication Incident management

Scenario – Batching Logic Apps does batching really, really well! BizTalk… not so much Logic App batching on any combination of Message Count Batch Size Time Limit of 5k messages or 80 MB

Scenario – Batching Demo

Scenario – Mapping Near seamless execution between BizTalk and Logic Apps Call inside Integration Accounts* or via Azure Functions Database and Custom functoids need to be re-worked Support for custom .Net assemblies

Scenario – Mapping Near seamless execution between BizTalk and Logic Apps Call inside Integration Accounts* or via Azure Functions Database and Custom functoids need to be re-worked Support for custom .Net assemblies See: Migrating BizTalk Maps to Azure Logic Apps: Shortcomings & Solutions

Scenario – Inbound De-batching BizTalk does a good job about inbound de-batching Logic Apps support auto-shredding JSON and XML Not all Logic App triggers and scenarios support Debatching Like a Request-response process

Scenario – Inbound De-batching Demo

Scenario – Inbound FTP/sFTP Use Logic App triggers to receive files Map, de-batch, and log as needed Send to BizTalk for on-prem processing

Scenario – Replace Reverse Proxy Use Logic App to collect inbound data Map, de-batch, and log as needed Great for one way scenarios Front with API Management for more flexibility

Phase 2 – Friction Factors

We Already Have BizTalk

We Already Have BizTalk For all the reasons we have already talked about

Data is too Sensitive

Data is too Sensitive True in some scenarios Use Logic Apps for non-sensitive workloads Do you trust your IT security team or Microsoft more?

Infrastructure Manager says NO

Infrastructure Manager says NO Get the infrastructure team on board early is key You will bother them less No new servers are needed Might reduce on-premise servers Show them all the cool IaaS features Let them feel important and tell them you will make them a co- admin on the Azure Subscription (usually Infrastructure or Ops own the Production subscription with no developer access)

Infrastructure Manager says NO

Learning Curve for Logic Apps If you have worked with BizTalk, Logic App will just make sense

Learning Curve for Logic Apps If you have worked with BizTalk, Logic App will just make sense “Logic Apps is so easy we do not need to hire outside consultants like Stephen anymore”

Learning Curve for Logic Apps If you have worked with BizTalk, Logic App will just make sense “Logic Apps is so easy we ALMOST do not need to hire outside consultants like Stephen anymore”

Azure Changes to Frequently Great! New features Things are made easier JITA Just In Time Architecture

CEO/CTO Says NO to the Clouds

CEO/CTO Says NO to the Clouds

Thanks – Stephen@StephenWThomas.com