Deep dives across data, automation & AI

Canvas App Performance Profiling in Production: Monitor, Telemetry & Azure Application Insights

Learn how to systematically find and fix Canvas app performance bottlenecks using Power Apps Monitor, custom Trace() instrumentation, and Azure Application Insights. Move from guessing to measuring with real production telemetry and KQL queries that expose exactly where your app is slow and why.

Canvas App Error Handling: Building Resilient Apps with IfError, Notify, and Graceful Failure Patterns*

Power Apps Data Validation: Using If, IsBlank, and IsMatch to Prevent Bad Data in Forms

Bad form data breaks workflows, corrupts reports, and wastes everyone's time — but it's entirely preventable. Learn how to use Power Apps' If, IsBlank, and IsMatch functions to validate required fields, enforce data formats, and build a Submit button that simply won't fire until everything is clean.

Canvas App State Management at Scale: Global Variables, Named Formulas, and Context Isolation for Enterprise Apps

Most Canvas App state management advice stops at "use Set() for global, UpdateContext() for local." This lesson goes much deeper — covering Named Formulas as reactive derived state, context isolation patterns for reusable components, and performance-optimized architectures for multi-user enterprise deployments. If your Canvas Apps are getting complex and unpredictable, this is the lesson you need.

Power Apps Collections and Local Data Management: Mastering ClearCollect, Patch, and In-Memory Data Operations

Most Power Apps developers only scratch the surface of collections. This lesson teaches you how to architect a full local data management layer — using ClearCollect, Patch, UpdateIf, and SaveData — to build offline-capable, batch-submitting, production-grade Canvas Apps. Includes a complete hands-on inspection app exercise.

Connecting Canvas Apps to REST APIs Using Custom Connectors: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

Learn how to build a Custom Connector in Power Apps from scratch and use it to pull live data from any REST API into your Canvas App. This hands-on guide walks through every step using a real weather API, so you leave with a working app and a skill you can apply to any external data source.

Architecting Canvas Apps for Enterprise ALM: Source Control with GitHub, Solution Layering, and Environment Pipeline Strategies

Most Canvas App projects fail not because of bad logic but because of bad process — no source control, no environment separation, and no disciplined deployment path. This deep-dive lesson shows you how to build a production-grade ALM system using the Power Platform CLI, GitHub Actions, and a multi-layer solution architecture that actually scales.

Implementing Role-Based Screen Access and Dynamic UI in Canvas Apps Using Azure AD Group Membership

Learn how to build a single Canvas App that serves multiple roles — managers, staff, and admins — by querying Azure AD group membership at startup and using role variables to control screen access, navigation menus, and individual UI components. This is the production RBAC pattern used in real enterprise deployments.

Publishing and Sharing Your Canvas App: Environments, Versions, and App Distribution for End Users

Building a Canvas App is only half the job — getting it into the right hands safely and reliably is the other half. This lesson walks you through Power Apps environments, the critical difference between saving and publishing, version management, and every sharing option available to you, so your app becomes something your team actually uses.

Power Apps Canvas App Automated Testing: Building Test Suites with Test Studio and Power Automate for CI/CD Pipelines

Learn how to build production-grade automated test suites for Canvas Apps using Test Studio, integrate them with Power Automate, and wire the whole thing into an Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. This deep-dive lesson covers test architecture, data management, service principal setup, and advanced assertion patterns — everything you need to actually ship reliable Power Apps at scale.

Power Apps Performance Optimization: Delegation, Data Row Limits, and Reducing App Load Times

Delegation errors don't crash your app — they silently return wrong data, and most developers don't catch them until production. This deep-dive lesson teaches you to diagnose delegation issues, rewrite non-delegable formulas, and cut app load times using Concurrent(), named formulas, and strategic collections.

Debugging Canvas Apps: Using the Power Apps Monitor Tool and Formula Errors to Fix Issues Fast

When your Power Apps canvas app breaks, guessing wastes hours. This lesson teaches you how to use the Power Apps Monitor tool and built-in formula error signals to trace any bug — from a silent form failure to a broken data filter — with a repeatable, systematic approach.