Azure Logic Apps: Seriously?

Right, so Microsoft decided you needed *another* way to glue crap together in the cloud. It’s called Azure Logic Apps. Basically, it’s a serverless workflow engine. Think of it as If This Then That (IFTTT) for people who like paying too much money and dealing with endless configuration panels. You drag-and-drop connectors – which are just pre-built wrappers around other services, mostly Microsoft’s because *of course* – to automate tasks.

The big news? They’ve added Managed Connector Platform (MCP) support. What does that mean? It means you can now build your own custom connectors if the 500+ they already have aren’t enough, which frankly says a lot about how useful those initial ones are. You still need to write code for it though, so don’t think this is some magical no-code solution. It just shifts the pain around.

They blather on about integration and automation, but honestly, it’s another layer of abstraction that will inevitably break when you least expect it. It uses a JSON-based language called Workflow Definition Language (WDL) – because everything has to be needlessly complicated with Microsoft. Expect debugging to be a special kind of hell.

Oh, and pricing? Pay-per-execution. Which means the more things *actually work*, the more it costs you. Brilliant. Just fucking brilliant.

Source: https://4sysops.com/archives/what-is-microsoft-azure-logic-apps-now-with-mcp-support/

Anecdote: I once spent three days troubleshooting a Logic App that failed because someone accidentally put a space in the JSON for a file path. Three. Days. For a *space*. And then they wondered why their automated backups weren’t running. Honestly, some people shouldn’t be allowed near computers, let alone cloud services.

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