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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Learning Power Platform integration best practices

In this section, we will present some best practices for frontend as well as for backend integration. Using some of the presented integration patterns and solution approaches is certainly useful, but not using them in the best way can cause various issues, especially regarding the solution's overall performance. Let's have a look at some of the best practices.

Frontend integration

When deciding on which frontend integrations to use, there are some important best practices that should be followed in order to achieve a robust, maintainable, and performant solution:

  • When embedding third-party content into CDS entity forms, consider placing it on separate form tabs, not on the primary tab, to avoid waiting for the content to load.
  • While jQuery is a very handy JavaScript library, it is not recommended to use it to call the CDS API. Use the client-side Web API to make calls to CDS, and only use jQuery to call...