Tharanga Chandrasekara is a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications and Co-founder and Head of Technology at Equerra, a Microsoft partner specialising in Business Central solutions, integrations, and AI-enabled products. With deep expertise in AL development, Azure Integration Services, and modern ERP architecture, he brings both hands-on technical depth and a genuine passion for pushing the boundaries of what Business Central can do.
Since 2016, Tharanga has been recognised with the Microsoft MVP award for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Tharanga is a regular face on the international conference circuit, having spoken at BC TechDays, Directions ASIA, and Directions EMEA. He is also the co-organiser of the Auckland D365 Business Central User Group and Directions ANZ, where he plays an active role in growing and connecting the Business Central community across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Modern Business Central solutions live in an integration-first world. Connecting to external platforms, handling asynchronous workloads, and building reliable processes are no longer edge cases. They are everyday architectural concerns. Yet many integrations still struggle with familiar problems such as blocking sessions, fragile dependencies, inconsistent data, and retry chaos.
This session explores how proven integration patterns can be practically implemented in Dynamics 365 Business Central to address these challenges. Rather than focusing only on tools, we examine the architectural decisions that separate integrations from scalable, fault-tolerant solutions.
Through real-world scenarios and live code examples, we will look at how Business Central can participate in publish-subscribe architectures, how messaging pipelines help decompose complex processing, and how correlation strategies enable reliable request/reply communication. We will also examine durable execution approaches for long-running workflows, including how Business Central’s job queue model and external orchestration engines complement each other.
Along the way, we will tackle the integration problems developers actually face:
Expect practical AL code, messaging examples, and honest discussions about trade-offs, anti-patterns, and error-handling strategies. The goal is not just to introduce patterns, but to help you think like an integration architect when building Business Central solutions.
If you design, build, or troubleshoot integrations in Business Central, this session will give you patterns, mental models, and implementation techniques you can immediately apply