{"podcast":{"title":"M365.FM a Microsoft MVP Podcast by Mirko Peters","slug":"m365-fm-modern-work-security-and-productivity-with-microsoft-365-7311214","podcast_index_feed_id":7311214,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6704921/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.m365.fm","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/dcd2a8cc504197846a71af23bbeb0707.jpg","author":"Mirko Peters - Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, and Copilot for IT Pros","episode_count":989,"summary":"M365.FM is a podcast about Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, AI, Modern Work, security, governance, Power Platform, Azure, and the technologies shaping the future of work.Hosted by Microsoft MVP Mirko Peters, M365.FM brings together Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft employees, product experts, architects, developers, and community leaders from around the world.Each episode goes beyond announcements and hype to explore what Microsoft technologies mean in practice. From Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents to Teams, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Entra, Purview, security, governance, adoption, and automation, M365.FM focuses on real-world experience, implementation, strategy, and lessons learned.Expect expert interviews, technical deep dives, practical explainers, and conversations with people building, implementing, and shaping the Microsoft ecosystem.If you work with Microsoft 365, Copilot, AI, Modern Work, or the Microsoft Cloud, M365.FM helps you understand what matters, what works, and what is coming next.Hosted by Mirko Peters, Microsoft MVP. 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In this episode of the M365FM Podcast, we expose the hidden architectural failure behind modern enterprise integration: the managed connector. For years, organizations have embraced low-code connectors as the “easy button” for automation, believing these pre-built wrappers accelerate digital transformation and reduce complexity. But underneath the convenience lies a fragile transport model filled with hidden latency, throttling limits, middleware bottlenecks, retry storms, and black-box infrastructure you do not control. The connector model was optimized for rapid deployment—not resilient scale. And now, under the pressure of AI workloads, real-time orchestration, and machine-to-machine traffic, the cracks are becoming impossible to ignore. This episode breaks down why traditional REST-based connector architectures are failing modern enterprise demands and why the future belongs to protocol-level engineering built on gRPC, Protobuf, persistent streams, WebTransport, asynchronous resilience, and direct transport-layer control. If your workflows collapse during traffic spikes, if your integrations suffer unpredictable latency, or if your automation pipelines become unstable under concurrency, the issue is not your logic. The issue is the transport itself. THE CONNECTOR ILLUSION Managed connectors promise simplicity. Drag-and-drop automation. Rapid deployment. Fast integrations without deep engineering expertise. But simplicity comes with a hidden cost. Every managed connector introduces middleware friction between your services. Your data is intercepted, serialized, routed through shared infrastructure, throttled, retried, and transformed before it ever reaches its destination. 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