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🔥Level 03 · Advanced

Master Complex
Integrations

Deep-dive into Durable Functions, enterprise messaging patterns, APIM as an AI gateway, B2B EDI, distributed tracing, and CQRS-based microservice architectures.

6 Services34 TopicsRequires IntermediateComplex patterns
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Azure Functions — Advanced
6 topics
01
Durable Functions — Orchestrator & Activities
Stateful workflows, fan-out/fan-in, chaining
hard
→02
Durable Functions — Human Approval Pattern
WaitForExternalEvent, timeout, external signals
hard
→03
Durable Functions — Aggregator Entity
Stateful actors, event counting, real-time totals
hard
→04
VNet Integration & Private Endpoints
Outbound via VNet, inbound via private endpoint
hard
→05
Performance: Singleton Clients & Prefetch
Avoid cold allocation, reuse SDK clients in DI
medium
→06
Blue/Green Deployment with Slots
Staging slot deploy, swap, smoke test pattern
medium
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Azure Service Bus — Advanced
6 topics
01
Transactional Messaging
Atomic send + complete in a single transaction
hard
→02
Duplicate Detection
Idempotent message processing, detection window
medium
→03
Message Deferral Pattern
Defer + fetch by sequence number for ordering
hard
→04
Claim-Check Pattern
Large payloads in Blob, send reference via SB
medium
→05
KEDA — Scale AKS on Queue Depth
Kubernetes pod autoscaling via Service Bus trigger
hard
→06
Geo-Disaster Recovery Setup
Primary/secondary pairing, alias endpoint, failover
hard
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Azure API Management — Advanced
6 topics
01
APIM → Service Bus Integration
send-request policy to publish messages, 202 pattern
hard
→02
APIM → Storage Upload/Download
Proxy blob operations via Managed Identity policy
hard
→03
Backend Load Balancing & Circuit Breaker
Backend pools, weighted routing, trip duration
hard
→04
Multi-Region APIM with Front Door
Active-active gateway, latency routing, failover
hard
→05
APIOps — GitOps for APIM
Extract/publish APIM config via GitHub Actions
medium
→06
APIM as AI Gateway (Azure OpenAI)
Token rate limiting, regional load balancing, usage logging
hard
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Azure Logic Apps — Advanced
6 topics
01
B2B EDI — AS2, X12, EDIFACT
Integration Account, partner profiles, schema validation
hard
→02
XSLT & Liquid Transforms
Complex data transformations with maps
hard
→03
Standard Logic Apps — VNet Integration
Outbound via VNet, private endpoint inbound
hard
→04
CI/CD — GitHub Actions for Logic Apps
File-based workflow deployment, parameter files
medium
→05
Stateless Workflows for High Throughput
No run history, lower latency, Standard tier only
medium
→06
Custom API Connectors
Build your own OpenAPI-based connector
hard
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Azure Event Hubs
5 topics
01
Event Hubs Architecture Deep Dive
Partitions, consumer groups, checkpointing
medium
→02
Function App + Event Hubs Trigger
Batch processing, max batch size, prefetch
medium
→03
Capture to ADLS Gen2
Auto-capture events as Avro/Parquet for analytics
medium
→04
Kafka Protocol on Event Hubs
Use Kafka SDK without changing code
hard
→05
Event Hubs vs Service Bus vs Event Grid
When to use which — decision framework
medium
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.NET Microservices
5 topics
01
CQRS + MediatR in .NET 8
Commands, queries, handlers, pipeline behaviours
hard
→02
Outbox Pattern for Reliable Messaging
Transactional outbox → relay to Service Bus
hard
→03
Distributed Tracing with App Insights
Operation IDs, dependency tracking, correlation
medium
→04
Health Checks & Readiness Probes
ASP.NET health endpoints for AKS/Container Apps
medium
→05
gRPC in .NET Microservices
Protobuf, streaming, APIM gRPC passthrough
hard
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