Blogs

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting New Orleans to present at TechEd North America. My session, Patterns of Cloud Integration, was recorded and is now available on Channel9 for everyone to view. I made the bold (or “reckless”, depending on your perspective) decision to show off as many technology...

Previously known as Azure EAI EDI Labs, the public preview launched today. I am especially excited about the EDI B2B solution in this new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Some of the tutorial links on Microsoft’s website are still being sorted out, but you can start with the Windows Azure...

I’m flying to New Orleans to speak at Tech Ed North America, and reading a book called Everything is Obvious (* Once You Know the Answer) and it mentioned the difficulty of making macro-level assumptions based on characteristics applied to a sample population. For some reason my mind jumped to the challenge...

The Windows Azure EAI Bridges are dead. Long live BizTalk Services! Initially released last year as a “lab” project, the Service Bus EAI Bridges were a technology for connecting cloud and on-premises endpoints through an Azure-hosted broker. This technology has been rebranded (“Windows Azure BizTalk...

Hi everybody, Mick’s Breeze announce a great thing on his blog. Azure will sooner have BizTalk as an application service. Its name simply BizTalk Service. For the moment only customer who joined the preview programs can use it. I hope they deliver it as soon as possible : What can we do with this...

In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely...

In my latest Pluralsight video training course – Patterns of Cloud Integration – I addressed application and data integration scenarios that involve cloud endpoints. In the “shared database” module of the course, I discussed integration options where parties relied on a common (cloud) data repository...