The 1400 Connector Lie: Why Azure Logic Apps Beats Power Automate

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Most people think more connectors means more power.

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The truth?

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Connect account is a vanity metric.

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Governance, scale and hybrid decide who survives

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and audit and who survives a spike.

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You can automate a birthday email with power automate.

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You cannot run a bank on it.

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Here's what actually matters.

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We're running side-by-side benchmarks

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that stress real enterprise needs.

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VNet secured on-prem data, high volume API orchestration,

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and AI agents with Azure Functions fallbacks.

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So we'll show receipts as your monitor dashboards,

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app insights traces, our back assignments and audit logs.

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There's a throughput ceiling,

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throttling your enterprise flows.

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We're going to hit it on camera.

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Test plan and criteria, how we're measuring beats.

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Okay, so here's the thing, intent dictates architecture.

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Power automate exists for business user convenience.

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Approvals, notifications, light data,

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shuffling in Microsoft 365,

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Azure logic apps, serves IT managed integration,

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network boundaries, SLAs and consequences.

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We're judging them accordingly,

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not pretending they solve the same problem.

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Matrix that matter, not marketing glitter,

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throughput per five minutes.

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Can the platform sustain burst without collapsing

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into back-offs and redries?

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Latency under load.

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Not the first happy path run,

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the P95 and P99 when the system is sweating,

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error rate and recoverability.

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Do failures dead letter cleanly and replay deterministically?

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Or do they vanish into run history purgatory?

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Governance visibility.

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Can an auditor answer who did what,

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when and from where, using first class tooling?

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Cost behavior at volume, predictable at 10 runs is cute,

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predictable at 100,000 actions is adulthood.

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Execution models matter.

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Power automate is effectively stateful only.

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Logic apps gives you stateful and stateless

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plus two hosting flavors, consumption and standard.

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That opens real control, stateless for millisecond

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path length, stateful for durability

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and standard for dedicated compute you can scale vertically

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and horizontally.

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In other words, you get knobs instead of prayers.

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Limits and scaling knobs side by side.

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Power automate enforces aggregate action limits

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across a tenant window.

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Hit the ceiling, get throttled.

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You don't tune it, you wait.

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Logic apps.

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Standard runs on dedicated plans with scale out

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and consumption offers high throughput mode.

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You set concurrency and degree of parallelism,

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the platform responds.

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Governance is similar.

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Power automate has DLP and tenant policies,

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useful but coarse.

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Logic apps sits under Azure RBIAC as your policy

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as your monitor and app insights.

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That's not nice to have.

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That's the adult table hybrid posture.

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Power automates on premises data gateway works

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until you try to standardize it across dozens of apps

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and strict egress rules.

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Logic apps integrates with v-nets, private endpoints

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and yes, Azure Arc.

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So you bring the runtime to your data

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and still manage it from Azure.

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That's how you pass a firewall review without bribery.

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Cost framing.

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Per flow licensing feels predictable at small scale

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then burst you workloads, hit platform throttles

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and you're paying in failed runs and over time.

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Logic apps, consumption and plan-based models

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reward intentional concurrency and burst handling,

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optimize or pay for waste,

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but at least the levers exist.

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Artifacts will show because opinions are cheap.

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Azure monitor dashboards for ingestion rates and latency,

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app insights, traces with correlation IDs

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across connectors and functions,

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our back assignments proving least privilege

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and audit logs that answer compliance questions

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without folklore.

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With rules set, we're going to break the 1,400 connectors

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illusion in three scenarios that actually matter.

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Scenario one, v-net secured, on-prem data,

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hybrid reality check.

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The problem you keep avoiding is simple.

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Your critical data isn't lounging in SAS.

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It's inside a subnet you got like a dragon.

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Power automates answer is the on-premises data gateway.

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It works until you try to operationalize it across 50 workloads

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with strict egress rules, certificate rotation

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and auditors who ask uncomfortable questions

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like who exactly created this connection

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and why does it have God mode.

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Here's what actually happens in Power Automate.

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Connections are tied to makers.

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Makers change teams, leave the company,

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lose MFA devices and painfully drag their personal tokens

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into production.

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Tokens sprawl, connection drift, shared gateways

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that become everyone's favorite single point of failure.

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You discover governance by outage, charming,

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inter-logic apps.

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We deploy the workflow into a secured v-net,

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integrate with private endpoints

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and bind access through managed identities.

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That means the workflow's identity is service principle

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clean, not a human's coffee-fueled session token.

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We restrict egress with NSGs and root tables

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and the only public service is none.

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If you're allergic to public IPs, good news, so am I.

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Now, for the hybrid purists, Azure Arc,

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you don't punch holes to the cloud,

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you bring the runtime to your cluster.

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The logic apps runtime runs as containers

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on your Arc enabled Kubernetes, on-prem or at the edge,

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while you still manage definitions, policy

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and monitoring from Azure.

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Data stays local, operations stays centralized.

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It's almost like someone designed this for reality.

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Governance proof, not vibes.

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In Azure, we scope RBAC precisely.

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Reader for auditors, logic app,

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contributor for platform engineers

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and tightly-scoped key vault permissions

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for the managed identity.

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Azure policy enforces that workflows must reside in v-nets

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for bid public endpoints and require private DNS integration.

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Non-compliant deployments denied at the door.

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DLP is fine for citizen automation.

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Policy is how adults stop drift.

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We'll show receipts.

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Azure Monitor, dashboard,

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ingress and egress metrics pinned,

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P95 latency steady even during batch windows.

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App insights traces.

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Each run carries a correlation ID

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from the HTTP trigger through the SQL built-in connector

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to a downstream function.

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You click the dependency map and watch the chain light up.

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No mystery wires, no heroic guessing.

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Let's talk failure modes because pretending things

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won't fail is how average users create incidents.

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In Power Automate, when a connection quietly expires

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on a shared gateway, flows start to back off.

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Some runs fail, some succeed,

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and the run history decorates itself

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with generic 429s and 5XX codes.

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You hunt across 10 flows to triangulate the root cause.

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Meanwhile, operations ask for post-mortem

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and you produce screenshots.

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Logic apps gives you measurable behavior.

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Stateful workflows apply deterministic retreats

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with exponential back off.

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Deadlet accuse capture poison messages

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so you can reprocess safely

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once the underlying system recovers.

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You tag runs with business keys

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so finance can rerun order 8472

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without resurrecting the entire batch.

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App insights alerts, wired to thresholds you chose,

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not whatever the platform felt like.

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Page the right team with context, not a flow failed.

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The actual failing dependency request ID

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and last known payload shape.

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Useful now performance under security constraints,

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we ran a vnet integrated standard plan

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with private endpoints into SQL and storage.

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During the 9am batch window,

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the workflows sustained a high flat throughput

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with P95 latency within the SLAB band.

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Why?

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Dedicated compute, tuned concurrency,

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and no public egress surprises.

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The network path is short, predictable,

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and under your control.

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Compare that to a gateway path crossing the public internet

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and the whims of a shared connector throttle.

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The truth, your hybrid isn't hybrid

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if the network is a rumor.

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Our closes the loop for strict data residency.

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The runtime executes next to your database rack.

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Only control plain metadata touches Azure.

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Auditors ask, did data leave jurisdiction?

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And you reply no, and here are the logs.

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Azure activity logs show deployments and policy evaluations.

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App insights shows run telemetry.

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Roll assignments show least privilege.

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That's an audit trail, not folklore.

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Security posture end to end.

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No secrets in run history because we use managed identities

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and key vault references.

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No wildcard firewall rules

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because private endpoints pin the service to your vnet.

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No mystery admin because our back

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denies curiosity by default.

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And when someone tries to deploy a workflow

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with a public trigger, Azure policy says no.

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Politely, consistently every time.

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Take away.

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Hybrid that auditors approve and ops can repeat.

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This is plumbing, not a permission slip.

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If your data is behind a firewall

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and your plan is share the gateway and hope.

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You don't have an integration strategy.

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You have a compliance liability with a friendly UI.

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Everything changes when the network is real.

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The identity is managed and the logs tell the story

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without you narrating.

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If the plumbing holds, can it move volume?

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Good because next will push it hard.

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Thruput meets throttles scenario two.

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High volume API orchestration, throughput versus throttles.

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Volume isn't a nice to have.

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It's the default state.

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Once your proof of concept becomes someone's quarterly target.

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Batch imports, order floods at top of hour.

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IoT spikes when devices come back online after maintenance.

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Not send an email, but thousands of actions

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per minute sustained with penalties if you missed the window.

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Here's what actually happens when you ask each platform

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to sprint.

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Power automate lives under aggregate action caps

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across the tenant window.

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You don't get a dial, you get a ceiling.

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When you hit it, the platform politely

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introduces you to back off, retries, and my favorite opaque slowdowns

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where runs succeed but bleed latency like a leaky radiator.

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You can't shape concurrency per flow with surgical precision.

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You can't isolate noisy neighbors.

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Your tuning option is weight, interlogic apps standard.

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Dedicated compute.

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You pick the plan, the course, the memory,

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and you scale horizontally when the graph says more.

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You set concurrency per action.

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You design for parallel fan out and controlled fan in.

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You choose stateless for hot parts with micro latency,

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stateful where durability and checkpoints matter.

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The result is intentional load shaping

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instead of platform roulette.

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Now let's push it.

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We orchestrate an intake pipeline that ingests orders over HTTP

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and reaches from a product API, writes to SQL,

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posts to a message bus, then calls a downstream fulfillment API.

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Classic high volume pattern, parallelizable, dependency

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heavy, unforgiving to bottlenecks.

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In power automate, you parallelize steps in theory,

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but you run into action per interval throttles in practice.

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Hit enough connectors at once and the platform clamps down.

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Your average looks fine.

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Your P95 and P99 blowpast SLA.

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Burst turn into rolling delays.

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You start staggering triggers to dodge the limiter,

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which is code for admitting the platform is steering.

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Logic apps, standard stateless,

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fronted by the built-in HTTP trigger.

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We crank degree of parallelism to a level proven safe

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in load tests.

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The built-in SQL and service bus connectors

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write the same dedicated plan, no shared throttling pool

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with the rest of the tenant.

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We enable partition processing, use correlation IDs

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end-to-end, and enforce idempotency

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with a key check before write.

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Spikes land, compute scales out, and the flow keeps pace

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without manual babysitting.

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Error handling is where adults separate from hobbyists.

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Power automates retry policies exist,

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but dead lettering patterns are bolted on at best.

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When a downstream API throws a 429 with a retry after,

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your runs scatter across the timeline.

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Some eventually recover some time out,

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some clock the run history.

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Root calls turns into a scavenger hunt.

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Logic apps gives you durable retries

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with exponential back-off and jitter-y control.

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When a dependency is sick, you send messages

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to a dead letter entity with exact failure metadata.

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You rehydrate later with a replay workflow,

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preserving original payloads and correlation.

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idempotency, yes, the word average user's pretend

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is optional, is built into the orchestration.

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That's how you avoid double charging a card

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when a callback arrives twice.

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Observability isn't a screenshot.

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It's a map.

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Application insights traces every hop.

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HTTP in-enrichment call, SQL dependency

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bus publish for film and API.

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The dependency graph lights up the hot path.

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You spot the slow connector by name,

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see the status codes by bucket,

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and filter to the run that matter to the CFO

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because you tagged it with the order id.

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That's incident response in minutes, not folklore over hours.

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Let's talk cost-under pressure.

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Perflow licensing sounds predictable

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until throttles force longer run times and more retries,

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which ironically you can't tune away,

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you pay in time and missed SLA penalties.

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Logic apps consumption with high throughput mode

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can blast through spikes.

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Hundreds of thousands of executions per five minutes,

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per workflow,

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while you control concurrency to protect downstream systems.

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Standard plan costs track to allocated compute

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and scale events you triggered for a reason.

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You pay to go fast on purpose, not to wait politely.

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Concurrency control isn't just about speed,

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it's about protecting dependencies.

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In logic apps, we apply circuit breakers.

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If fulfillment starts returning five XX over a threshold,

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we trip a short circuit, root to dead letter and alert.

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The rest of the pipeline continues absorbing input

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up to the buffer limit you set.

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In Power Automate, you inherit platform-wide guard rails

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that don't know your system's tolerance.

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The throttle applies, then your backlog grows

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in directions you didn't choose.

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Now the micro story you've lived.

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Last quarter, someone scheduled a bulk import of hours.

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It collided with a finance job and a marketing sink.

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Power Automate flows slow to a crawl, run stacked,

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retries turned the queue into soup.

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The next morning customer service had a mystery,

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orders in the CRM, missing in fulfillment.

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Post-mortem action item, increase capacity,

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helpful, how we reran the same load

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through logic app standard stateless front door,

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stateful consolidation at the fan inn.

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Concurrency set to match downstream API quarters, not vibes.

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App Insights alerts tuned to P95 latency on enrichment

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and to 4 to 29 rates on fulfillment.

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Scale out triggered at queue depth, not on a calendar.

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The pipeline finished inside the window.

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SLA is met, no heroics.

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And yes, you can still burst without melting your wallet.

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Consumption with high throughput lets you sprint,

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then drop back to idle without paying for warm cores

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at noon on Sunday.

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Standard gives you predictable performance

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for steady volume with the option to scale.

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The point is agency.

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You pick the trade-offs, you enforce them

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with configuration, not hope.

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Operationally, this means fewer 3a mesh calls

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that say the flow is slow and more alerts

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that say fulfillment API at 70% error, circuit open,

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one down 142 messages protected.

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Next we try in 10 minutes.

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One is noise, the other is a plan.

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So no, the 1-400 connectors don't save you

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when the stopwatch starts.

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Thruput isn't a menu item, it's an architecture.

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Build with dials, not ceilings.

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Scenario three, AI agent plus Azure functions.

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Fallback, when low-code hits a wall.

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AI agents aren't magical interns.

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Their brittle orchestration wrapped around tools

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and the tools those glorious connectors cover the 80%.

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The last 20% is where your no-code forever fantasy goes to die.

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Custom transforms, model-specific parameters,

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policy logic that isn't expressable as a drop-down.

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If your platform has no pro-code escape hatch,

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you're building a clever demo, not a system.

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Here's what actually happens in Power Automate

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when the connector can't, you improvise,

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you stack HTTP actions with hand-rolled headers,

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you paste JSON schemas from last week's email,

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you sprinkle past JSON, like confetti,

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to coerce shapes the UI refuses to understand.

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It works until the provider adds a field,

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changes a rate limit, or returns a 207 with mixed results.

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Then your flow turns into a museum

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of commented actions and diagnostic branches,

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technical debt disguised as convenience.

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Enter logic apps extensibility on purpose.

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You orchestrate in logic apps,

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you compute in Azure Functions when the job demands real code,

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the pattern is straightforward and repeatable.

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Keep the workflow declarative, triggers, routing,

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error policy, retries.

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Offload the null-y bits to functions,

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complex mapping, signature verification,

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vector store lookups, custom LLM tool calls,

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or policy evaluation that must run under a strict package set.

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Stateless where speed matters,

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stateful when you need checkpoints.

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You're mixing Lego bricks with steel beams,

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and yes, that's allowed.

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Let's build the agent the grown-up way.

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The agent receives a request.

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Classify intent, call the right downstream tool,

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transform the payload, apply business policy,

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and return an answer with citations for audit.

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In logic apps, we front it with the built-in HTTP trigger

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for throughput.

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First step, call a function that performs intent classification

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using your chosen model and a safeguarded prompt.

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That function returns a typed result.

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Tool equals service now ticket, confidence, and policy flags.

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Back in the workflow, we branch based on that typed output,

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not string matching on a chatty blob.

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Tool calls aren't guesses.

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For service now, the connector covers the basics,

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but your enterprise requires a custom create or link incident

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with enriched context and the dup.

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The built-in connector can't dup across your three instances.

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Fine, second function, did up logic that queries your index,

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applies your similarity threshold,

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and emits either an existing incident ID

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or a normalized create payload.

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Logic apps then invokes the service now connector

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with a payload that's already compliant.

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No hacks, no hidden loops.

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Traceability is the difference between AI did something

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and we own the outcome.

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We stamp a correlation ID at the entry point

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and pass it to every function call and connector action.

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Application insights needs the whole story,

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classification function vector lookup service.

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Now dependency back to the workflow then outbound response.

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When legal asks, what did the agent do with ticket 39124?

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You open a single trace and show the evidence,

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not performative transparency, actual provenance,

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security posture stays clean,

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managed identities end to end.

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The logic app uses its identity to call the functions app

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through a private endpoint.

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The functions app uses its identity to access key vault,

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the vector database, and whatever else the policy allows.

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No secrets in run history, no shared maker tokens.

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Arbacs scopes each component to least privilege.

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If someone tries to call the functions app

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from the public internet, denied at the network layer.

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If someone helpfully adds a new output binding

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that writes to a public storage account,

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Azure policy blocks the deployment.

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You don't debate it in a meeting, the platform enforces it.

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Now the low-code wall moment,

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your model provider updates an API, new headers,

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chunking rules, pagination behavior that returns partials,

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you must reassemble.

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In Power Automate, that's a re-factor

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across scattered HTTP actions with fragile string manipulation.

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In logic apps, you update a function, version it.

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Test it, roll it forward behind a feature flag header,

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the workflow sets.

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If something misbehaves, you root a percentage of traffic

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back to the old function version for a sane rollback.

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That software engineering, not talismanic clicking,

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error handling doesn't become fanfiction.

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Logic apps marks the step as failed

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with the functions, explicit error code and message.

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Durable retry kicks in with the jitter you specified.

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If the function indicates a business rule failure,

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say user lacks entitlement,

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you root to a human in the loop queue

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with the correlation ID and sanitized context.

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App insights tracks both the automated failure

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and the human resolution latency

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so you can optimize the bottleneck

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that actually costs you time.

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Performance matters here too.

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Stateless path for classification and tool routing.

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Stateful path for long running human approvals

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or multi-step compensations.

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You can scale, function separately from the workflow plan,

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allocate compute suited to vector math

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without overprovisioning the orchestration layer

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and keep P95 predictable.

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The agent remains responsive at the front

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while heavy lifting scales where it belongs.

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Outcome, AI agents that behave like services, not party tricks.

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Low code where it accelerates orchestration,

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code where it removes fragility,

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observability that lets you prove what happened,

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governance that survives and audit.

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And when the next, we just need one more field request arrives,

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you don't rebuild a flow, you ship a function.

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Rebuttals.

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The three comfortable myths.

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Let's clean up the three myths

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that keep otherwise smart teams glued to the wrong platform.

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Myth 1, per flow licensing is predictable.

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At small volume, sure.

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At enterprise volume, predictability dies

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by throttling, retries, and elongated run times you can't tune.

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You pay twice, once in licenses again in missed windows.

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In logic apps, costs track to execution and in standard

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to allocate it compute you scale with intent.

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You can cap concurrency to protect dependencies and shapespent.

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predictability isn't a price list, its control surfaces.

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Myth 2, connector parity means platform parity.

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No, same family of connectors, different enforcement domains.

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In power automate, the connector lives

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behind tenant-wide throttles and user bound connections.

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In logic apps, the same connector runs inside your plan

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with managed identities, vNet integration, and private endpoints.

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You attach it to policy, our back, and observability,

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parity on paper, divergence in production.

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Myth 3, the learning curve is too steep.

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Translation, we prefer convenient fragility

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to professional discipline.

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Source control, CI/CD, policy compliance, identities,

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and runtime diagnostics are not electives.

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They are how you stop incidents from turning into origin stories.

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The curve exists because reality exists.

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The good news is the tools are consistent.

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Arm, bicep, terraform, pipelines, app insights.

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Learn them once, apply them everywhere, objection, but DLP.

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DLP is helpful for citizen automation.

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It's not observability, not network control,

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and not identity hygiene.

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Governance is logs, metrics, traces, our backscopes,

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policies that auto-deny drift and alerts with context.

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If your defense is we set a DLP boundary,

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you've described a guardrail, not a cockpit.

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Objection, we need one of 400 connectors.

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Wonderful.

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00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,760
Use them from a platform that won't sabotage you

531
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,200
at 100,000 actions in five minutes.

532
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,560
Logic apps.

533
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:16,400
Standard gives you dedicated throughput,

534
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,040
consumption with high throughput gives you

535
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,560
burst capacity per workflow.

536
00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,280
The number of doors is irrelevant if the hallway is blocked.

537
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,840
Objection, power automate can do approvals fast.

538
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:25,920
It can and it should.

539
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,400
Departmental winds belong there.

540
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,520
This isn't a religion, it's risk accounting.

541
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,640
Failed runs, silent slow downs,

542
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:34,240
and throttled backlogs cost credibility.

543
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,360
Auditors don't accept the wizard said no.

544
00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,160
Executives don't accept the platform slowed down.

545
00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:40,560
They want levers and receipts.

546
00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,160
Logic apps gives you both.

547
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,160
Decision rule stated plainly,

548
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,640
departmental convenience, power automate,

549
00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,280
enterprise integration hybrid, SLA's logic apps,

550
00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:51,640
choose based on the blast radius you're willing to own.

551
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,120
If a missed approval annoys a team, fine.

552
00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:55,920
If a missed batch breaches a contract,

553
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,640
stop pretending a convenience layer is an integration strategy.

554
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,200
Practical framework, choose intentionally.

555
00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:03,680
You want a rubric, fine.

556
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,880
If you need vnet integration, private endpoints

557
00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,440
as your arc or strictly controlled egress, choose logic apps.

558
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,360
Otherwise, you'll tunnel through a gateway

559
00:21:11,360 --> 00:21:12,960
and hope the spreadsheet where you track

560
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,320
connections never goes stale.

561
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:15,720
Hope is not a network pattern.

562
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,600
If you need more than 100k actions per five minutes,

563
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,800
explicit parallelism and stateless low latency parts,

564
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,160
choose logic apps.

565
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:24,520
Power automate will throttle.

566
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:26,320
You'll spend weekends staggering schedules

567
00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,360
to appease a ceiling you can't move.

568
00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:30,680
Logic apps lets you set concurrency by action,

569
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,760
isolate noisy neighbors and scale on signal.

570
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,160
If you need pro code fallbacks, functions,

571
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,840
custom connectors, inline code

572
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,720
with real dependency management, choose logic apps.

573
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,080
The moment your hand stitching headers

574
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:43,480
and regecs in a designer to mimic a library,

575
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,440
you've chosen technical debt.

576
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,560
Move the computation to where code belongs,

577
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,360
keep orchestration declarative and observable.

578
00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:52,440
If you need seam integration, granular R-back

579
00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,080
and policy-driven guardrails, choose logic apps

580
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,600
in mid-locks to your CM.

581
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,640
Enforce must be in a vnet, no public endpoints,

582
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,280
managed identity required with Azure policy.

583
00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,880
Scope roles, so auditors have read, operators have deploy,

584
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,080
identities have only the secrets they need.

585
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,520
Governance isn't a PDF.

586
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,000
It's enforced configuration.

587
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,280
If you need simple M365 approvals,

588
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,680
notifications and team automations, choose power automate.

589
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,400
That's its job, quick wins low friction, minimal ceremony,

590
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,680
keep it inside strict DLP boundaries

591
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,680
and don't let citizen automations

592
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,160
wander into mission-critical territory.

593
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:27,920
Operating model that doesn't implode,

594
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,520
use logic apps with ARM, bicep terraform, pipeline every change,

595
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,240
validate with pre-deployment tests

596
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,240
and wire app insights with mandatory correlation.

597
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,120
Use power automate for citizen automation

598
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,280
in a fenced environment.

599
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,360
Dedicated environment, DLP locked,

600
00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,440
connectors curated with a promotion path

601
00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:47,040
to logic apps when volume, sensitivity or complexity rises.

602
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,280
Final stance, one more time for the people in the back.

603
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,920
Connector counts are marketing.

604
00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,200
Architecture is destiny.

605
00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,000
Pick the platform that aligns with your risk,

606
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,960
your volume and your auditors.

607
00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,520
Then commit, don't split the difference

608
00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,480
and wonder why both halves hurt.

609
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,320
Here's the only line that matters.

610
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,600
Connector quantity is irrelevant without enterprise plumbing.

611
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,200
Logic apps bring scale, governance and hybrid.

612
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,240
Power automate brings convenience.

613
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,320
If you want the receipts and the how to subscribe

614
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,160
for the TierDown series on logic apps, standard patterns,

615
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,320
stateless versus stateful, functions integration done right

616
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,800
and end-to-end tracing with application insights

617
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,280
so you can prove causality, not guess it.

618
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,920
Then watch the cost modeling episode

619
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,440
and the VINET and Azure ARC deployment walkthrough.

620
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,360
Enable notifications so you don't miss the benchmark updates

621
00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:33,000
when we push new limits and publish the dashboards.

622
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,160
Do the efficient thing now.