BizTalk360 – What is the Roadmap?

by | Sep 14, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

We often hear this question from people asking our Roadmap, the honest answer is "We don’t have one".

Being a small company we can’t afford to have a lengthy business plan with long set of features.  Having big plans only scares people off, instead of doing things. We keep things simple, we work on 1 or 2 features at a time. Do it very well and make sure it works as promised.

We give demos to 1 or 2 customer a week consistently, and our future directions are mainly driven by those customer requests. When we hear something for the first time we ignore it (it’s true, we ignore it). When we hear the same thing second time, we make a note of it, and finally when we hear it third time that feature is definitely getting into our next release.

The other areas we concentrate is on reliability, we improve the quality of BizTalk360 on every release. Again, being a small company the last thing we want is to spend time diagnosing unknown issues raised by customers. It just puts lot of stress and pauses our regular routine, so we constantly improve the quality.

BizTalk360 now is a completely different product to the one we have planned 19 months ago. If we had spend time writing business analysis documents with all the feature sets, it probably would have taken us 6 months just to get us out of the ground. You probably won’t know, we have thrown away 2-4 months of our work, just because we understood it doesn’t add too much value and it simply bloats BizTalk360.

We wanted to solve real business problems faced by customers, we wanted to be as close as possible to reality. We wanted to make BizTalk360 a nice little solution, that addresses a niche problem for the Microsoft? BizTalk Server customers.

Workaround for Kerberos SSPI Context Errors in BizTalk

Workaround for Kerberos SSPI Context Errors in BizTalk

by | Sep 13, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A couple weeks ago one of my clients was experiencing constant “Cannot generate SSPI Context” errors in BizTalk. These are Kerberos errors and they are extremely annoying because they happen constantly whenever you are trying to use any database function with BizTalk. These would fill up the event logs on my client’s server and was […]
Blog Post by: clineer

AppFabric Access Control Service Webcast – Using Social Identity Providers

by | Sep 13, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’ve started to take a look at the Azure AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS), and have started an ACS sectionon Cloud Casts. The first webcast looks at using social identity providers to provide authentication for websites. I’m going to focus on ACS for a bit and wait for the AppFabric messaging capabilities to be released before returning to them and looking in more detail. I have a few webcasts on AppFabric messaging here.

What I hope happens at Build

by | Sep 12, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

 

A number of people
(including Shawn Wildermuth) have been writing and speculating about the Build conference.
I’m about to pack to drive down to Anaheim and wanted to document in the blogosphere
my hopes about what will be announced there.

I actually hope that .NET on the client is dead. Well not dead – but IMO .NET has
had a good run and it’s time to let go. When I say .NET on the client I mean WinForms,
Silverlight, WPF, all of it.

You might ask why someone who has spent 10+ years working on the platform would say
that – and my answer is HTML5.

People often think of me as the BizTalk guy (OK, well we know that BizTalk is dead
if not on its way out), or the REST guy. But before I was into either of those things
I was actually a pure web developer. HTML, JavaScript, ASP, and then ASP.NET.

In essence I feel like I am going back to my roots these days (come see me talk about
HTML5 and mobile app development at VSLive this
fall, for example).

That’s why as of today this site is now renamed www.masteringhtml5.com –
I’m going back to my roots.

My hope is that Microsoft sticks with its first announcement about Windows 8 and that
new “immersive” apps or whatever they are going to be called *have* to be built using
HTML5 and JavaScript. Not only do I hope that because I’m happy to be going back to
my “roots”, but I think it is the smartest thing to keep the Windows platform relevant.

I’ll have more to come on this topic as the week progresses.

Check out my new book on REST.
Blog Post by: Jon Flanders

BizTalk 2010 & Azure: Breeze takes Centrebet to the cloud

by | Sep 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A recent project my team has worked hard on has come to fruition . This was a challenging
project in these key areas:

  • High volume – benchmarks of 20000 concurrent requests/sec through the system.
  • Low latency – time is critical as price and market changes going through.
  • Scalable – different data centers, different regions in the world.

Seemed like a great challenge. and we built some great componentry through it, utilising
the best of many worlds.

Centrebet have released a press release about their Microsoft Azure Cloud, Application
Integration solution. This is a tremendous success story for such a well-known Australian
brand.

Centrebet
deploys app integration platform

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Azure: Training – Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

by | Sep 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Hi folks, I’m starting off a series Azure training sessions for Microsoft via Live
Meeting – yesterday Scotty & I delivered a great presentation with all the main
pillars on show.

This session is more about what is inside the Azure ’Fabric’ and how is this space
managed.

In the coming sessions we will delve into creating/configuring applications,
deployments etc.

For now – here is the fundamental ’what’s under the hood’

(Recording will be made available shortly)

You can download from here – http://bit.ly/qEiqLC

Blog Post by: Mick Badran