Rethinking SharePoint at Scale: Designing for Millions Beyond the 5,000 Item Threshold

The 5,000 threshold is often misunderstood as a storage cap. Learn how to architect SharePoint as a high-volume operational store using indexing, point lookups, and folder-based partitioning in the Power Platform.

June 13, 2026 · 6 min · Sunil Kumar Pashikanti

Why Power Automate Recurrence Triggers Fail: Architectural Deep Dive

🧠 Overview Power Automate provides a seamless low-code experience for building automation workflows. However, behind the scenes, it is powered by the Azure Logic Apps runtime, a distributed workflow orchestration engine. While this abstraction simplifies development, it can obscure how triggers actually execute, especially for time-based triggers like Recurrence. Errors such as: WorkflowTriggerNotReady are not caused by flow logic, they originate from the underlying scheduling infrastructure. 🏗️ Execution Architecture At a high level, a Power Automate flow executes through multiple backend layers: ...

June 12, 2026 · 4 min · Sunil Kumar Pashikanti

FlowArmor: A Reliability & Observability Pattern for Power Automate

🎯 The Problem Power Automate enables rapid workflow creation, but it lacks a standardized approach for: Error handling Failure propagation Observability Cross-flow traceability As solutions scale, this leads to hidden failures and operational blind spots. 🧱 The Missing Layer Enterprise systems typically separate: Execution Logging Monitoring Alerting In Power Automate, these concerns are often mixed or inconsistently implemented. 🛡️ Introducing FlowArmor FlowArmor is a lightweight framework designed to standardize: Error handling Telemetry generation Correlation tracking Failure propagation 🧭 Architectural Pattern FlowArmor enforces a structured execution model: ...

June 10, 2026 · 3 min · Sunil Kumar Pashikanti

From 'Alert Me' to Notification Architecture in Microsoft 365

Introduction For over a decade, the “Alert Me” feature in SharePoint served a simple purpose: it told you when something changed. It worked well for a long time, until the way we work became more complex. As organizations grew and collaboration moved faster, these simple alerts became a bottleneck. They were personal, invisible to IT teams, often noisy, and impossible to manage at scale. Replacing them isn’t just about picking a new tool. It is an architectural evolution. We are moving away from isolated file alerts and toward a centralized notification system built on Power Automate. ...

April 22, 2026 · 4 min · Sunil Kumar Pashikanti