You’ve got a bunch of DNS zones hosted on Verizon’s Edgecast, and you’d like to move them over to Azure DNS. Sounds tedious and error-prone. Let’s use the API’s for Edgecast and Azure to automate copying over those DNS records.
Wouldn’t you like to know when MailGun fails to deliver an email? Or worse still, when someone complains about an email you sent?
MailGun can notify you about the following events:
Clicked Complained Delivered Failed Opened Unsubscribed There’s just one catch: You have to write your own webhook, then subscribe to those events with your webhook’s URL. If that thought left you cross-eyed, fear not! The reign of cloud computing has made this simpler than it used to be, especially the introduction of functions as a service.
Wouldn’t it be cool to send out an SMS SOS with the touch of a button? Like your own private SMS Bat-Signal!
I’ll show you how to do it using Twilio and an Azure Function. Here’s an overview of the simple architecture:
/--> | |--> 📱 |--(HTTP POST)--> [ Azure Func 𝛌 ] ---> | Twilio |--> 📱 \--> | |--> 📱 Simple, right? Let’s paint the clouds red, 160 characters at a time.
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Scenario: You’re using an Azure Logic App to update a Salesforce record using the Salesforce API connector.
Problem: The Salesforce connector doesn’t make it easy to send a custom update request. It wants you to name all the fields you intend to update. But what if you don’t want to update some of those fields, based on some condition? Well, you were up a creek — until you found this post.