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Jul 10, 20266 min read

Database Replication: Leader-Follower, Quorums, and the Lag Nobody Budgets For

Sync vs async replication, why failover loses writes, and how quorum systems skip the leader entirely. The trade-offs that set your durability story.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Sharding a Database: Partition Strategies That Survive Growth

Hash vs range partitioning, choosing a shard key you won't regret, the hot-partition problem, and why cross-shard queries are the real cost of sharding.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Designing a Distributed Job Scheduler That Doesn't Fire Twice (Usually)

Delayed jobs, cron at scale, and work claiming with SKIP LOCKED. Why every scheduler promises at-least-once and what that forces on your handlers.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Designing a News Feed: Fan-Out on Write vs Fan-Out on Read

Precompute every follower's timeline or assemble it per request? The celebrity edge case that breaks the pretty answer, and the hybrid everyone ships.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Designing a Payment System: Double-Entry Ledgers and Idempotent Money

Why 'UPDATE balance' is a bug, how double-entry bookkeeping becomes a schema, and the idempotency and reconciliation machinery that keeps money honest.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Distributed ID Generation: Snowflake, ULID, and the Clock-Skew Problem

Why auto-increment dies when you shard, why random UUIDs wreck index locality, and how time-ordered IDs like Snowflake and UUIDv7 thread the needle.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Distributed Locks: Leases, Fencing Tokens, and Why Redlock Is Controversial

A lock with a TTL can expire while its holder still thinks it owns it. Fencing tokens fix what timeouts break — and most lock problems have better answers.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Geospatial Indexing: How 'Drivers Near Me' Actually Works

B-trees can't answer 2D questions. Geohash, quadtrees, and hex grids turn 'within 2km' into a prefix scan — plus the boundary problem that trips everyone.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Load Shedding and Graceful Degradation: Failing the Right Requests First

Overloaded systems don't slow down gracefully — goodput collapses. Admission control, criticality tiers, and retry budgets decide what breaks and what survives.

system-design tutorial

Jul 10, 20266 min read

Raft in Plain English: How Clusters Agree When Nodes Keep Dying

Leader election, log replication, and the quorum-overlap trick that makes Raft safe. What etcd, Consul, and Kafka KRaft are actually doing under the hood.

system-design tutorial

Jul 2, 20264 min read

Feature Management in D365 Finance and Operations: Flags, States, and Custom Features

How the D365 F&O Feature management workspace works, what feature states mean for ALM, and how to ship your own X++ features behind flags.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jul 2, 20264 min read

Retry Policies in Power Automate: What Actually Happens When an Action Fails

How Power Automate retry policies work, which errors they cover, how to configure them, and how to keep retries from duplicating side effects.

power-automate tutorial

Jul 2, 20264 min read

The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Publishing Events Without Losing Them

Why dual writes lose events, how the transactional outbox pattern fixes it, and the relay, ordering, and cleanup decisions that make it production-ready.

system-design tutorial

Jun 26, 20267 min read

Feature Flags: How to Stop Coupling Deployment to Release

Shipping code and releasing a feature are different events that most teams accidentally fuse together. Feature flags split them — and unlock trunk-based development, safe rollouts, and instant rollback.

devops tutorial

Jun 25, 20267 min read

Evaluating LLM Applications: Getting Past 'It Looks Good to Me'

Shipping LLM features on vibes works until a prompt tweak silently breaks ten other cases. Here is how to build evals that catch regressions before your users do.

ai llm tutorial

Jun 23, 20267 min read

Getting Structured Output From an LLM Without the Heartbreak

Asking a model to 'return JSON' and parsing the result is how you get 3 a.m. pages. Tool schemas, constrained decoding, and validation turn a probabilistic text generator into a reliable API.

ai llm tutorial

Jun 22, 20267 min read

D365 F&O Data Entities: Composite, Computed, and Virtual Fields Explained

Data entities look like simple tables until you need a nested import, a derived column, or a field with no storage. Knowing the three advanced shapes is what makes integrations actually work.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 21, 20267 min read

Chunking Strategies for RAG: Where Retrieval Quality Is Won or Lost

Most RAG systems that retrieve bad context aren't failing at embeddings or reranking — they're failing at chunking. How you split documents quietly decides what your model can ever find.

ai llm tutorial

Jun 20, 20267 min read

Backpressure: What Happens When Your System Can't Keep Up

A fast producer and a slow consumer is a recipe for an out-of-memory crash. Backpressure is the discipline of letting the slow part tell the fast part to wait. Here is how to design it in.

system-design tutorial

Jun 18, 20266 min read

Database Connection Pooling: The Bottleneck You Forgot to Tune

More connections is not more throughput. Past a point, adding connections makes your database slower. Here is how pools actually work and how to size one without guessing.

system-design tutorial

Jun 18, 20266 min read

Power Apps Collections vs. Dataverse: Where Your App's Data Should Actually Live

Collections feel fast and convenient, so makers overuse them — and ship apps that lose data and break on refresh. Here is when to hold data in memory and when it belongs in Dataverse.

powerapps tutorial

Jun 17, 20267 min read

Write-Ahead Logging: The Unsung Hero of Database Durability

How does a database survive a power cut mid-write without corrupting your data? The answer is a deceptively simple rule: log the change before you apply it. Here is why WAL is everywhere.

system-design tutorial

Jun 15, 20266 min read

Bloom Filters: Saving Gigabytes When 'Probably Not' Is Good Enough

A Bloom filter answers 'have I seen this?' using a tiny fraction of the memory a real set would need. The price is false positives — and understanding that trade is the whole skill.

system-design tutorial

Jun 15, 20267 min read

Resilient Power Automate: Retry Policies and Dead-Letter Patterns

Transient failures are normal in any flow that calls an API. The difference between a flow that self-heals and one that pages you at 2 a.m. is how you handle retries and the failures that stick.

power-automate tutorial

Jun 14, 20266 min read

The Saga Pattern: Transactions That Span Services You Can't Roll Back

A single ACID transaction can't span order, payment, and inventory services. Sagas chain local transactions with compensating actions to keep distributed state consistent — eventually.

system-design tutorial

Jun 13, 20265 min read

Extending Data Entities in D365 Finance & Operations Without Breaking Upgrades

Add fields, computed columns, and validation to standard D365 Finance & Operations data entities the upgrade-safe way — with X++ examples and the staging-table traps to avoid.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 13, 20266 min read

Optimistic UI Updates: Making Apps Feel Instant Without Lying to Users

The like button that responds before the server confirms feels instant. The trick is updating the UI first and reconciling later — and handling the rollback so you never mislead the user.

react web-dev tutorial

Jun 12, 20264 min read

Chain of Command vs Event Handlers: Extending D365 F&O the Right Way

When to use Chain of Command and when to use pre/post event handlers in Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations — with X++ examples, a decision table, and the gotchas that trip up teams.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 12, 20266 min read

Circuit Breakers: Stopping a Cascading Failure Before It Spreads

When a downstream service slows down, naive retries turn one sick dependency into a system-wide outage. A circuit breaker fails fast, sheds load, and gives the dependency room to recover.

system-design tutorial

Jun 12, 20267 min read

Dataverse Plug-in Performance: Avoiding the Slow Plug-in That Times Out

A synchronous plug-in runs inside the user's transaction with a hard time limit. One slow query or external call can break saves for everyone. Here is how to keep plug-ins fast and safe.

dynamics-365-crm dotnet tutorial

Jun 11, 20264 min read

Electronic Reporting in D365 Finance: Building Custom Formats Without Code

A practical guide to the Electronic Reporting (ER) framework in D365 Finance — data models, model mappings, and format configurations to produce custom files without X++.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 11, 20266 min read

The Transactional Outbox: Reliable Messaging Without Distributed Transactions

You wrote to the database and then published an event — and the publish failed. Now your systems disagree. The outbox pattern makes the write and the event atomic without a two-phase commit.

system-design tutorial

Jun 10, 20267 min read

Debouncing and Throttling in React: Taming Expensive Event Handlers

A search box that fires a request on every keystroke, a scroll handler running 60 times a second — these are debounce and throttle problems. The concepts are simple; React makes them subtly tricky.

react web-dev tutorial

Jun 10, 20264 min read

Financial Dimensions in D365 Finance: How They Really Work

Default dimensions, ledger dimensions, account structures, and the DimensionAttributeValueCombination table explained — with X++ patterns for reading and building dimensions in D365 Finance.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 9, 20267 min read

Consistent Hashing: How Distributed Systems Avoid the Great Reshuffle

When you add a node to a sharded cache, naive hashing remaps almost every key. Consistent hashing moves only a fraction. Here is the mechanism, the virtual-node fix, and the traps.

system-design tutorial

Jun 9, 20266 min read

Dataverse Many-to-Many Relationships: Native, Manual, and When to Use Each

Native N:N relationships are quick to set up and impossible to extend. A manual junction table is more work and far more flexible. Choosing wrong means a painful migration later.

dynamics-365-crm powerapps tutorial

Jun 9, 20264 min read

Number Sequences in D365 Finance & Operations: Setup, Pitfalls, and X++ Patterns

How the number sequence framework works in D365 Finance & Operations — continuous vs non-continuous, preallocation, cleanup, and X++ patterns for generating numbers on custom tables.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 8, 20264 min read

D365 Finance & Operations Security: Roles, Duties, and Privileges Done Right

How the role-based security model in D365 Finance & Operations actually works — privileges, duties, roles, segregation of duties, and how to extend security without overlayering.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 7, 20264 min read

Recurring Integrations and the REST API in D365 Finance & Operations

Move files in and out of D365 Finance & Operations reliably using the recurring integrations REST API — enqueue, dequeue, acknowledge, and the status polling patterns that keep data flowing.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 6, 20264 min read

Extensible Data Security (XDS) in D365 Finance & Operations: Row-Level Security That Scales

How to build extensible data security policies in D365 Finance & Operations to filter records by user context — with a worked example, query constructs, and the performance pitfalls to avoid.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 5, 20267 min read

Managing D365 Finance & Operations Environments with LCS and Database Refreshes

Practical D365 Finance and Operations LCS guide for environment tiers, database refreshes, bacpac exports, restores, and sandbox governance.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 4, 20266 min read

Table and Form Data Source Events in D365 F&O: A Practical X++ Reference

Practical D365 F&O X++ event handler guide for table CRUD events, form data source events, ordering caveats, and when to use CoC.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 3, 20266 min read

Building and Deploying D365 Finance & Operations Packages with Azure DevOps

Build and deploy D365 Finance and Operations packages with Azure DevOps, hosted build pipelines, LCS Asset Library, and release safeguards.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 2, 20266 min read

Surviving OData Throttling in D365 Finance & Operations Integrations

Design resilient D365 Finance and Operations OData integrations with 429 handling, Retry-After, batching, backoff, jitter, and DMF fallbacks.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jun 1, 20266 min read

Building Custom Workflows in D365 Finance & Operations from Scratch

Step-by-step D365 Finance and Operations workflow framework guide covering categories, types, approvals, event handlers, and submit code.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

May 31, 20265 min read

TempDB vs InMemory Temporary Tables in X++: When to Use Which

Clear X++ guide to TempDB vs InMemory temporary tables in D365 F&O, with joins, indexes, set-based operations, and performance tradeoffs.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

May 30, 20267 min read

Dual-Write vs Virtual Entities vs OData: Choosing the Right F&O–Dataverse Pattern

Compare dual-write, virtual entities, OData, and DMF for Finance and Operations to Dataverse integration with latency and failure tradeoffs.

dynamics-365-fo dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 29, 20266 min read

Low-Code Plug-ins in Dataverse: Server-Side Logic Without C#

Learn when to use Dataverse low-code plug-ins with Power Fx for transactional server-side logic, and when C# plug-ins or flows still win.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 28, 20266 min read

Writing Your First Dataverse Plug-in in C#: A Complete Walkthrough

Build a first Dataverse C# plug-in with IPlugin, pipeline stages, Target handling, tracing, registration, and production-safe practices.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 27, 20266 min read

Business Rules vs Power Fx vs Plug-ins: Where to Put Dataverse Logic

A practical Dataverse logic placement guide comparing business rules, Power Fx, JavaScript form scripts, and C# plug-ins for scale.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 26, 20266 min read

Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales: What It Does and How to Configure It

Configure Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales with practical guidance on summaries, email drafting, meeting prep, data readiness, and governance.

dynamics-365-crm copilot tutorial

May 25, 20266 min read

Model-Driven App Forms: Customization Patterns That Scale

Design scalable model-driven app forms with tabs, sections, quick views, business rules, form scripts, security, and performance patterns.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 24, 20266 min read

Alternate Keys and Upsert in Dataverse: Reliable Integrations Without Duplicates

Use Dataverse alternate keys and Web API upsert to build idempotent integrations that match business identifiers, avoid duplicates, and simplify retries.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 23, 20266 min read

Calculated and Rollup Columns in Dataverse: Patterns and Limits

Compare Dataverse calculated, rollup, and formula columns with practical examples, platform limits, timing tradeoffs, and when plug-ins are safer.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 22, 20266 min read

Securing Power Pages with Dataverse Table Permissions and Web Roles

Secure Power Pages data with Dataverse table permissions, access scopes, web roles, column profiles, and testing practices that prevent data leaks.

dynamics-365-crm powerapps tutorial

May 21, 20267 min read

Configuring SLAs and Entitlements in Dynamics 365 Customer Service

Configure Dynamics 365 Customer Service SLAs, KPI timers, business hours, pause rules, Power Automate actions, and entitlements without surprises.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 20, 20266 min read

Querying the Dataverse Web API: FetchXML, OData, and When to Use Each

Choose OData or FetchXML for Dataverse Web API queries with practical examples for select, filter, joins, aggregation, paging, and performance.

dynamics-365-crm tutorial

May 19, 20267 min read

Canvas vs Model-Driven vs Power Pages: Choosing the Right Power Apps Type

Choose between canvas apps, model-driven apps, and Power Pages using a practical matrix for UX, data, licensing, governance, and audience fit.

powerapps tutorial

May 18, 20266 min read

Solving Power Apps Delegation Warnings for Large Dataverse Tables

Learn how Power Apps delegation works, why blue warnings matter, and the Dataverse patterns that keep large-table queries accurate and fast.

powerapps tutorial

May 17, 20265 min read

Building Your First PCF Control for Power Apps

Build a first Power Apps PCF control with the CLI, manifest, TypeScript lifecycle, local testing, solution packaging, and safe deployment steps.

powerapps tutorial

May 16, 20265 min read

Building Offline-Capable Power Apps for the Field

Design offline-capable Power Apps for field teams using canvas app caching, queue-and-sync patterns, conflict handling, and mobile offline profiles.

powerapps tutorial

May 15, 20265 min read

Named Formulas and the With() Function: Power Fx Patterns for Faster Apps

Use Power Fx named formulas and With to replace noisy OnStart logic, reduce repeated lookups, and make canvas apps faster and easier to maintain.

powerapps tutorial

May 14, 20266 min read

Power Platform Environment Strategy: Dev, Test, Prod, and Everything Between

Design a Power Platform environment strategy with dev, test, prod, managed solutions, pipelines, DLP, routing, and governance that scales for teams.

powerapps tutorial

May 13, 20266 min read

Data Loss Prevention Policies in Power Platform: A Practical Setup Guide

Practical guide to Power Platform DLP policies, connector groups, environment scope, custom connectors, endpoint rules, and flow breakage diagnosis.

powerapps tutorial

May 12, 20266 min read

Managed Environments in Power Platform: What They Are and When to Turn Them On

Understand Managed Environments in Power Platform, including governance features, licensing, security controls, insights, trade-offs, and rollout timing.

powerapps tutorial

May 11, 20266 min read

Building Your First Agent in Copilot Studio

Build a first Copilot Studio agent with topics, generative answers, actions, authentication, testing, publishing, and Teams or website channels.

powerapps tutorial

May 10, 20266 min read

Embedding Power BI in Power Apps and Driving Cross-Filtering

Embed Power BI content in canvas apps, pass app selections into report filters, read Power BI selections back, and handle licensing and performance.

powerapps tutorial

May 9, 20266 min read

Responsive Canvas Apps with Containers: Stop Using Absolute Positioning

Learn responsive canvas app layout with horizontal and vertical containers, flexible sizing, breakpoints, scaling settings, accessibility, and tab order.

powerapps tutorial

May 8, 20265 min read

15 Power Automate Expressions Every Maker Should Memorize

Memorize these Power Automate expressions to build faster flows, handle nulls, shape arrays, format dates, reduce action count, and debug WDL.

power-automate tutorial

May 7, 20265 min read

Calling the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate with the HTTP Action

Learn when to call the Dataverse Web API from Power Automate for actions, functions, batch requests, impersonation, row association, and binds.

power-automate tutorial

May 6, 20265 min read

Child Flows in Power Automate: Reuse, Pass Data, and Avoid Duplication

Use child flows in Power Automate to centralize reusable logic, pass typed inputs and outputs, handle errors, reduce duplication, and improve ALM.

power-automate tutorial

May 5, 20265 min read

Speeding Up Apply to Each: Concurrency, Filters, and Select in Power Automate

Speed up Power Automate Apply to each loops with concurrency, Filter array, Select, OData filters, pagination strategy, lower action counts, and safer runs.

power-automate tutorial

May 4, 20265 min read

Mastering Parse JSON in Power Automate: Schemas, Null Handling, and Arrays

Master Power Automate Parse JSON with generated schemas, nullable fields, required properties, arrays, nested access, and practical error fixes.

power-automate tutorial

May 3, 20266 min read

Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop: Your First RPA Bot

Build your first Power Automate Desktop RPA bot with selectors, variables, loops, Excel data, cloud triggers, licensing, and reliable handoffs.

power-automate tutorial

May 2, 20265 min read

Trigger Conditions in Power Automate: Stop Flows From Running When They Should Not

Use Power Automate trigger conditions to prevent noisy runs, save quota, filter SharePoint changes, skip system updates, and debug triggers.

power-automate tutorial

May 1, 20266 min read

Try-Catch-Finally in Power Automate with Scopes and Run After

Implement try-catch-finally error handling in Power Automate using Scopes, run-after settings, result outputs, retries, alerts, and Terminate.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 30, 20266 min read

Batch Create and Update SharePoint Items in Power Automate with the $batch API

Speed up bulk SharePoint creates and updates in Power Automate by calling the $batch API with changesets, chunking, and per-item error handling.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 29, 20266 min read

Posting Interactive Adaptive Cards to Teams from Power Automate

Create Teams adaptive cards from Power Automate, collect inputs, capture responders, update cards, validate replies, and choose cards wisely.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 28, 20266 min read

Connection References and Environment Variables: Power Automate ALM Essentials

Use connection references and environment variables to make Power Automate solution deployments predictable across dev, test, and production.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 27, 20266 min read

Handling Pagination and Large Datasets in Power Automate

Learn how Power Automate pagination, thresholds, filters, and batching keep large Dataverse and SharePoint datasets reliable.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 26, 20266 min read

Securing Secrets in Power Automate: Secure Inputs, Outputs, and Key Vault

Secure Power Automate secrets with Azure Key Vault, secure inputs and outputs, least privilege, rotation, and safer ALM patterns.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 25, 202610 min read

An MCP Server for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations: Natural-Language Access to ERP

How to expose Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations to Claude through MCP — the architecture, the data entity choices, the auth model, and the operations that should never be one prompt away.

dynamics-365 ai mcp

Apr 25, 20268 min read

Event-Driven System Design: The Decisions That Bite You Later

A practical guide to the design decisions that determine whether an event-driven system stays maintainable or quietly rots — delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotency, schema evolution, and the outbox.

system-design tutorial

Apr 25, 20265 min read

Power Automate and Azure Service Bus: Reliable Enterprise Messaging

Build resilient Power Automate integrations with Azure Service Bus queues, topics, sessions, duplicate detection, and dead-letter handling.

power-automate tutorial

Apr 24, 20266 min read

MCP Explained: How Claude Connects to Your Dataverse Data

An introduction to the Model Context Protocol and how the Dataverse MCP server lets Claude read and write business data through natural language.

copilot dynamics-365-crm tutorial

Apr 24, 20266 min read

Querying Dataverse from Claude: A Practical MCP Walkthrough

A hands-on example of using the Dataverse MCP server with Claude to query tables, create records, and update data in Dynamics 365 through natural language.

copilot dynamics-365-crm tutorial

Apr 23, 20266 min read

Claude Code Hooks: Automating Repo Guardrails Without Pre-Commit Fatigue

Use Claude Code hooks to enforce policy at the moment actions happen — before edits, before tool calls, on session start — without relying on pre-commit hooks everyone learns to bypass.

ai claude tutorial

Apr 21, 20267 min read

Building Your First MCP Server in Python: A Hands-On Walkthrough

From zero to a working Model Context Protocol server in about 100 lines — tools, resources, a local client test, and the traps that will bite you on day one.

mcp ai claude

Apr 18, 20267 min read

Prompt Caching with Claude: What It Saves, Where It Fails, and How to Set It Up in Production

A precise look at Claude's prompt caching — how the cache hit math actually works, the 5-minute and 1-hour TTL variants, and the subtle mistakes that silently disable it.

claude ai tutorial

Apr 16, 202612 min read

Snowflake Security in Layers: Roles, Column Masking, Row Policies, and Environment Controls

A practical walkthrough of Snowflake's four security layers — role hierarchy, column-level masking policies, row access policies, and environment isolation — with real SQL examples.

tutorial data-engineering snowflake

Apr 15, 20268 min read

Tool Use with Claude: Parallel Calls, Retries, and the Patterns That Survive Production

The tool-use features of the Claude API look straightforward in the docs. These are the production patterns that separate a demo from a system that handles real traffic — parallel tool calls, retry loops, error recovery, and tool_choice tactics.

claude ai tutorial

Apr 12, 20267 min read

Claude Agent SDK vs Direct API: When to Reach for Each

The Claude Agent SDK is the fastest path to a capable coding-style agent. The raw messages API is the fastest path to understanding what your agent is doing. Here's when each is the right tool.

claude ai tutorial

Apr 8, 20265 min read

Next.js 16 and React 19: What Actually Matters in 2026

A practical guide to the features that changed how we build React apps — Server Components, the new compiler, and the patterns that stuck.

nextjs react web-dev

Apr 4, 20268 min read

Vector Databases Compared: pgvector, Qdrant, Pinecone, and When You Don't Need Any

A practical comparison of the vector databases people actually deploy in 2026 — and an honest look at when a vector database is the wrong tool for the job.

system-design ai tutorial

Mar 30, 20268 min read

Idempotency Keys: The Pattern That Saves Your Payment System

Idempotency keys are what separate a payment system that double-charges during a retry from one that doesn't. The mechanism looks simple and has five subtle failure modes you need to know about.

system-design tutorial

Mar 20, 20268 min read

Multi-Tenant Data Isolation: Row-Level, Schema-Level, Database-Level, and How to Choose

Three patterns for multi-tenant data isolation in SaaS, the trade-offs between cost, blast radius, and compliance, and a migration path from one to another when you outgrow your first choice.

system-design tutorial

Mar 16, 20268 min read

Building Custom Copilot Plugins for D365 Sales: Your First Action Step by Step

A hands-on tutorial for creating custom Copilot plugins in Dynamics 365 Sales — from defining a custom API to registering a plugin that Copilot can invoke, with real examples and permission gotchas.

dynamics-365-crm copilot tutorial

Feb 18, 20269 min read

Autonomous AI Agents in D365 Sales and Customer Service: What You Actually Need to Know

A practical breakdown of the Sales Qualification Agent, Case Management Agent, and the governance framework you need before deploying them.

dynamics-365-crm copilot tutorial

Jan 20, 20268 min read

Building a Real-Time Dashboard with Next.js, Server-Sent Events, and Supabase

A step-by-step guide to building a live-updating dashboard using Next.js API routes, Server-Sent Events, and Supabase Realtime — with reconnection handling and smooth UI transitions.

nextjs react web-dev

Dec 1, 20258 min read

The New Accounting Rules Engine in D365 Finance: Stop Wasting 30 Hours a Month on Period Close

How the Accounting Rules Engine, multi-entity journals, flexible hierarchies, and Copilot in D365 Finance 10.0.46+ transform period close for multi-company environments.

dynamics-365-fo copilot tutorial

Nov 3, 20258 min read

Automated Testing for Power Apps with Test Engine — A Practical Walkthrough

Set up automated tests for your canvas apps using Power Apps Test Engine — from first test case to CI/CD pipeline integration.

powerapps tutorial

Oct 6, 20259 min read

Dual-Write Between D365 F&O and Dataverse: Pitfalls and Patterns That Actually Work

A field-tested guide to dual-write configuration between D365 Finance & Operations and Dataverse — covering initial sync failures, conflict resolution, performance tuning, and when to use alternatives like virtual entities or data export service.

dynamics-365-fo dynamics-365-crm tutorial

Sep 8, 20259 min read

Monitoring What Matters: Setting Up Alerts That Don't Cry Wolf

Most alerting setups produce noise that teams learn to ignore. Here is how to design alerts around the four golden signals, set thresholds that mean something, and build a system where every alert is worth waking someone up for.

devops tutorial

Jul 14, 20258 min read

Azure Functions vs Azure Container Apps: Choosing the Right Serverless Model

A detailed comparison of Azure Functions and Azure Container Apps — pricing, cold starts, scaling, runtime support, and a decision flowchart for picking the right one.

azure tutorial

Jun 16, 20256 min read

Building a Zero-Downtime Deployment Pipeline with Azure DevOps and Slot Swaps

How to build a deployment pipeline that swaps staging and production slots on Azure App Service — with smoke tests, warm-up, rollback strategy, and a real YAML pipeline you can steal.

devops tutorial

May 19, 20257 min read

Infrastructure as Code with Bicep: Moving Beyond ARM Templates

ARM templates are painful. Bicep fixes the developer experience with cleaner syntax, modules, and first-class Azure CLI integration. Here is how to migrate and start using it in your CI/CD pipelines.

devops tutorial

Apr 21, 20259 min read

Rate Limiting and Throttling: Designing APIs That Survive Traffic Spikes

Why every public API needs rate limiting, the four main algorithms compared, implementation in Next.js with Redis, proper HTTP headers, and Azure API Management policies.

web-dev azure tutorial

Mar 17, 20259 min read

Authentication Patterns for Modern Web Apps: Sessions, JWTs, and OAuth Compared

A practical comparison of session-based auth, JWT auth, and OAuth 2.0 / OIDC — how each works, when to use them, security pitfalls, and recommended patterns for SPAs, server apps, and mobile.

web-dev tutorial

Feb 10, 20257 min read

CQRS in Practice: When It's Worth the Complexity and When It Isn't

A clear-eyed look at Command Query Responsibility Segregation — what it actually is, how to implement it in .NET, when it pays off, and when it's unnecessary complexity.

web-dev dotnet tutorial

Nov 11, 202410 min read

X++ Query Performance in D365 F&O: Indexes, Joins, and the Trace Parser

How to diagnose and fix slow X++ queries in D365 Finance & Operations using Trace Parser, execution plans, proper index design, join selection, and set-based operations — with real before/after examples.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Oct 14, 20249 min read

Virtual Entities in D365 F&O: Exposing External Data Without the ETL Tax

How to use virtual entities in D365 Finance & Operations to surface external data from APIs and databases without importing, syncing, or paying the ETL tax — with a real-world supplier data example.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Sep 2, 20246 min read

PowerShell Modules: Packaging and Publishing Reusable Scripts for Your Team

Stop copying .ps1 files into shared folders. Learn how to package PowerShell scripts into proper modules with versioning, publish them to a private feed, and distribute them to your team like a professional.

powershell tutorial

Aug 5, 202410 min read

Migrating Data into D365 F&O with the Data Management Framework — Lessons from the Trenches

A practical guide to data migration using the Data Management Framework in D365 Finance & Operations — covering entity selection, staging tables, transformation patterns, error handling, and performance tuning from real enterprise migrations.

dynamics-365-fo tutorial

Jul 9, 20248 min read

Canvas App Performance: 10 Patterns That Actually Make a Difference

Concrete, measurable patterns to speed up slow Power Apps canvas apps — with before/after examples for each optimization.

powerapps tutorial

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Power Fx Formulas Every Maker Should Know in 2026

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