Because yesterday Portugal was European Champion I decide today to give a gift to the community by making an earlier release of my Microsoft Integration Stencils Pack. After the major release in June 16, I started to realize that with so many stencils it was becoming a little hard to find, or rather, I was […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
A goal from Eder, at the 109 minutes of the match, it was worth the European champion title to Portugal, an unprecedented title in Portuguese football, succeeding our neighbor Spain. PORTUGAL are the Euro 2016 champions. No matter what anyone says or does, that will not change. (photo from: UEFA) No matter now saying that […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Riaan Gouws, @RiaanGouws74
Riaan is Chief Technical Officer at Synegrate, a Southern California based software consulting company specializing in on premise, hybrid and cloud based integration. Synegrate is also a Microsoft Gold Partner in Application Integration with specialized skills in Modern Integration (Azure Micro Services and BizTalk Server), based out of Costa Mesa, California. The company has been operating since 2004 as Inobits Inc. and was rebranded as Synegrate in 2014.
Riaan is a BizTalk Server expert, having worked with the platform since its initial release 15 years ago. He furthermore is a keen supporter of Microsoft’s cloud first strategy and has aligned Synegrate with this strategy. He is also a member of the elite Microsoft Virtual Technology Specialist (VTSP) team, a small group of selected industry experts working as an extension to the Microsoft Technology Specialist teams. He has a strong relationship with Microsoft as a valued partner in implementing enterprise solutions on top of Microsoft Azure.
I got opportunity to work with Riaan during my last project where he was the architect for the BizTalk solution – EDI and EAI, for the enterprise customer. He is amazing person and a great consultant to work with.
Now a days he is mostly involved with customers where they are implementing modern integration strategies using Microsoft Azure. He was the first person I reached out for the reviewer of our book – Robust Cloud Integration with Azure.
Now that he is in the reviewer team of our book, I asked him to share his thoughts on the following couple of questions about the book.
1. What do you think about the outline of the book?
I reviewed the book outline and I think it is well thought out, accurately targeted towards integration professionals, and reads very easily. I especially love Chapter 3 – Getting started with API Apps; I think it is comparable to a theme park thrill ride. It takes the user from introduction to API apps, to advanced topics in a quick 40 pages or so. Love it!
Then the approach you guys are taking with Logic Apps is also great. You start the reader off slow, but then quickly accelerate through the chapters, showing the users basic to advanced concepts on orchestrating data. I also appreciate the fact that you are on cusp of new offerings in Azure, such as Integration Account and Integration Pack.
2. What is your expectation from the book or how do you think this book would be valuable for its reader’s time and money?
I expect the book to take an integration developer/architect, with predominantly an on-premise integration skill and mindset, to being knowledgeable and comfortable building integration solutions in Azure. Synegrate is currently involved with customers where we are implementing modern integration strategies using Microsoft Azure. I see readers gaining a lot of knowledge from the book; knowledge that we have gained from practical experience in the field. I think of this book as something that will allow readers to fast-track their entry into getting modern integration solutions built in Azure.
I thanks Riaan to be part of our team as reviewer and also sharing his thoughts about the book.
I wish him and Synegrate very best for their future endeavors.
Everyone’s doing integration nowadays. It’s not just the grizzled vet who reminisces about EDI or the seasoned DBA who can design snowflake schemas for a data warehouse in their sleep. No, now we have data scientists mashing up data sources,… Read More ›
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
In addition to my day job of being an Enterprise Architect at an Energy company in Calgary, I also write for InfoQ. Writing for InfoQ allows me to explore many areas of Cloud and engage with many thought leaders in the business. Recently, I had the opportunity to host a Virtual Panel on Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
Participating in this panel was:
Overall, I was very happy with the outcome of the article. I think the panelists offered some great insight into the current state of iPaaS and where this paradigm is headed.
You can read the entire article here and feel free to add comments in the article’s comment section.
Today Microsoft renews my MVP award for the 10th time.
I would like to tank Microsoft for these 10 years, thank to my family and my wife for the patience and the support, thank to all my MVPs friends for the great moments together in these 10 years and a huge thank you to all my followers, supporters and the integration animals around the world for the great challenges in these 10 years, next year with the new features incoming in Azure and the great job around BizTalk Server we will raise the level 🙂
10 years as MVP is a long journey, full of greats and bad moments, big challenges, wins and losses, many conferences around the world, thousands of hours during the evenings study new patterns and writing code and a lot of time invested to share big passion to many people as possible.
Why?
Because this is a Microsoft MVP.
Proud to be a member of this awesome family.
Axon Olympus biedt u een volledige waaier aan diensten op het gebied van ICT integratie. U kunt bij ons terecht voor BizTalk beheer, consulting, training, testing, remote ondersteuning en nog veel meer. Internet of Things Consultancy Axon Olympus geeft […]
Blog Post by: inventeers
Axon Olympus biedt een aantal kant en klare producten voor het effici%u00ebnter inzetten van Microsoft BizTalk Server. Zij zijn opgedeeld in een aantal groepen die u hieronder aantreft. De Axon IoT Gateway Onze IoT Gateway is een essentieel Internet […]
Blog Post by: inventeers
Internet of Things stelt u in staat om op slimme wijze meer relevante data te verzamelen en deze op nieuwe wijze te kunnen analyseren. Zo kunt u ’actionable insights’ cre%u00ebren, producteninnovaties mogelijk maken en bedrijfsprocessen optimaliseren. De uitdaging ligt in […]
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus
Veel bedrijven zijn Internet of Things (IoT) scenario’s aan het verkennen om nieuwe diensten aan te kunnen bieden en een concurrentievoordeel ontwikkelen. Maar een flink aantal van hen ervaart hindernissen bij het aansluiten van systemen of sensoren op de cloud. […]
Blog Post by: AxonOlympus