OMSCS Graduation and Recap

The online Masters of Computer Science program at Georgia Tech is completely online and designed for working, part-time students. I applied to OMSCS in 2015 when I was concerned about what I saw as a plateau ahead in my career. At the time I worked for a smaller company doing a little bit of everything in technology and development. With a MS in chemistry and a minor in computer science under my belt I was confident that I would be able to succeed in OMSCS and it would contribute to my part of my aspiration to be a better developer and work as software engineer in the future.

I received the decision notification email while driving from Missouri back home to Minnesota. It was unpleasantly cold and windy at a gas station in Iowa as I navigated the applicant portal from my iPhone. Also relatively unpleasant was the news that I had not been accepted to OMSCS.

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Azure Logic Apps and Form-Data HTTP Requests

The nuts and bolts of this post is about sending an HTTP POST request in an Azure Logic App that utilizes the multipart/form-data content type. I don’t run into it often, but when I do, I’m sure glad I figured out how to do more than application/json request bodies in Logic Apps. The use case I came across this week for multipart/form-data body was for the Mailgun API.

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