How the platform and the Power Apps product actually work — the decisions, the trade-offs and the things that turned out to be harder than they looked.
For Power Apps
Power Apps has never had a document that comes out of the printer looking the way it looked in the designer. That gap is the whole reason this product exists.
Parsware Platform
A swimlane designer is easy. An engine behind it — human tasks, timers, escalation, and a live diagram of where a run actually is — is the part that makes it more than documentation.
AI
Local AI hardware can make coding agents faster, more private and less dependent on cloud limits. A practical comparison of current GPU, Mac and workstation options for vibe coding workflows.
Power Platform
Model-driven apps let you build data-first business applications on Dataverse. Here's how they work, when to use them, and how to keep them maintainable.
Power Platform
From a single form to a complex multi-step process, custom Power Apps applications can streamline how your business works — if they're designed around real requirements.
PCF
A practical walkthrough of creating a custom Power Apps Component Framework control — from environment setup to packaging and deployment.
Power Platform
Plugins run your business rules on the server, where they can't be bypassed. Here's how they work, when to use sync vs async, and how to keep them reliable.
Power Platform
Cloud flows, approvals and integration flows can remove hours of manual work — if they're built to be reliable. A practical look at Power Automate.
Azure
Azure Functions give Power Platform solutions elastic, serverless muscle — for custom APIs, webhook handling and event processing. Here's how we use them.
Integration
Reliable integration isn't point-to-point — it's event-driven. How Service Bus, Functions and a configuration-driven pipeline move data into Dataverse safely.
Integration
Documents and files need somewhere to live and a clean path in and out. How we combine Blob Storage and Dataverse for auditable, scalable file handling.
DevOps
Manual exports and imports don't scale. How build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps make Power Platform delivery repeatable, auditable and safe.
DevOps
When a change spans several solutions, a custom task and a PowerShell step in Azure DevOps can combine them into a single, easy-to-deploy artifact.
Power Platform
Moving solutions from development through to production cleanly — managed versus unmanaged, dependencies, and the habits that keep environments consistent.
DevOps
Version numbers matter for traceability, but bumping them by hand is easy to forget. A small PowerShell step in your pipeline can do it every build.
DevOps
When Microsoft-hosted agents aren't enough, a self-hosted agent gives you control over tooling, caching and network access. When and how to use one.
