by community-syndication | 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:
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High volume – benchmarks of 20000 concurrent requests/sec through the system.
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Low latency – time is critical as price and market changes going through.
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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
by community-syndication | Sep 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I’m a big fan of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform for many reasons. Their pace of innovation is impressive, their services are solid and their ecosystem is getting better all the time. Up until now, .NET focused developers have only had the AWS SDK for .NET to work with (besides going against the native […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
by community-syndication | 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
by community-syndication | Sep 8, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
We had an action packed 2 days hammering ’Azurey’ (Azure) discovering all the concepts
and most importantly I was trying to get the Why point across.
Why??
Why should we use Azure? When should we use it? Do I *need* to use it? Where can it
help me for little effort etc.. etc..
The students walked out with a trial Azure account which enabled them to continue
working on their environment as and when they could.
We had some great discussions and some good fun was had by all.
I thought I would make my slides available – http://bit.ly/q0UXfe (case
sensitive) – ENJOY!
Blog Post by: Mick Badran
by community-syndication | Sep 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I am currently in the process of integrating several back-end systems with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, utilising BizTalk as the integration hub platform. WCF, and specifically the “Consume Adapter Service” within Visual Studio, abstracts the creation of CRM Schemas to the point that the process is just like any other WCF service. However, I came […]
Blog Post by: Brett
by community-syndication | Sep 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Recently, I rolled off a client project where we implemented an e-commerce platform with lots of customization to meet client needs. This brought to light the delicate balance between usingthe platform’s existing features and customizing the user experience to moreeffectively accommodate your users. You want tothink that every out-of-the-box solution is going to provide an […]
Blog Post by: Matt Donahue
by community-syndication | Sep 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Disclaimer: Yes I am plugging a book Almost every day new (technical) books are released and each and every day we as developers, administrators, architects, managers and/or mere mortals are burdened with the decision ’to read or not to read’… Read more ›
Blog Post by: Ren%u00e9 Brauwers
by Rene Brauwers | Sep 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Disclaimer: Yes I am plugging a book 😉
Almost every day new (technical) books are released and each and every day we as developers, administrators, architects, managers and/or mere mortals are burdened with the decision ‘to read or not to read’ a particular book.
Well as of this October we as BizTalk-ers will be facing one of the toughest decisions ever since the release of BizTalk Server 2006 (I simply love exaggerating it a bit) as PACKT publishing will be releasing Dan Rosanova’s book BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns
In order to help you all with deciding wither to (pre)order or not to (pre)order this book I’ve included the below mentioned ‘Decision Tree’
You might be thinking: “Why is he shamelessly promoting a book?”
Well to answer the above question… I am promoting this book as Steef-Jan Wiggers (BizTalk MVP) and Randal van Splunteren (BizTalk MVP) and I had the honor to be part of the Technical Review process of “Dan Rosanova’s book BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns” and honestly this book is a must read even if you consider yourself (or are called by others) a BizTalk Guru/Expert as I am convinced that we all as BizTalk-ers can and will learn from it and after all that’s what we all do and what we all crave “Learning new stuff” and the best part of it: Not only you will benefit by learning new insights your current and future customers will benefit as well…
So what can you expect in this book?
Well my former colleague Steef-Jan Wiggers and BizTalk MVP sums it up pretty neatly in his latest blog-post so I will not repeat it here.
Anyway you can (pre)order the book now! It is currently available for (pre)order at either PACKT publishing or Amazon
by Rene Brauwers | Sep 7, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Disclaimer: Yes I am plugging a book 😉
Almost every day new (technical) books are released and each and every day we as developers, administrators, architects, managers and/or mere mortals are burdened with the decision ‘to read or not to read’ a particular book.
Well as of this October we as BizTalk-ers will be facing one of the toughest decisions ever since the release of BizTalk Server 2006 (I simply love exaggerating it a bit) as PACKT publishing will be releasing Dan Rosanova’s book BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns
In order to help you all with deciding wither to (pre)order or not to (pre)order this book I’ve included the below mentioned ‘Decision Tree’
You might be thinking: “Why is he shamelessly promoting a book?”
Well to answer the above question… I am promoting this book as Steef-Jan Wiggers (BizTalk MVP) and Randal van Splunteren (BizTalk MVP) and I had the honor to be part of the Technical Review process of “Dan Rosanova’s book BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns” and honestly this book is a must read even if you consider yourself (or are called by others) a BizTalk Guru/Expert as I am convinced that we all as BizTalk-ers can and will learn from it and after all that’s what we all do and what we all crave “Learning new stuff” and the best part of it: Not only you will benefit by learning new insights your current and future customers will benefit as well…
So what can you expect in this book?
Well my former colleague Steef-Jan Wiggers and BizTalk MVP sums it up pretty neatly in his latest blog-post so I will not repeat it here.
Anyway you can (pre)order the book now! It is currently available for (pre)order at either PACKT publishing or Amazon
by community-syndication | Sep 6, 2011 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Currently I am in Toronto staying at friend enjoying some free time before heading to San Francisco, and SoCal for the Windows Build Conference. Still I find some time to write this post, which I wanted to as BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns book is there for pre-order. A new BizTalk book written by Dan Rosanova, two time MVP BizTalk Server, and over a decade over of experience delivering solutions on Microsoft platforms in different branches. It is published by PACKT and reviewed by myself, fellow MVP Randal van Splunteren and Rene Brauwers, basically an all Dutch BizTalk Technical Review team.
I enjoyed reviewing it and found that the author has put in tremendous effort together with a lot of people at PACKT and fellow reviewers to be able to publish such a fine book. I realize it may sound/read like I am shamelessly plugging/promoting this book, but I really mean it. Therefor I am going to tell you why I mean it and why as an professional integration professional, consultant or architect in Microsoft space need to buy this book.
First of all it is a great book, and in first part it extensively details the important parts of BizTalk, how to structure your solution, XLANG, architecture and its components like BAM, artefacts (i.e. orchestrations, pipelines, maps), operation architecture (i.e. scalability, availability), (unit) testing and messaging concepts. The second part the focus shifts from theory to practice and will be very appealing for professionals that develop BizTalk solutions. This part delivers you the skills to error handling, WCF-SQL Adapter capabilities, BRE (i.e. policies, vocabularies and rules), dealing with flat files and bindings, BAM, SQL Broker (Notifications), SharePoint, orchestration patterns (i.e. conveys), handling zombies and some other concepts.
Second reason is that this book neatly fits in with other BizTalk books published by PACKT like :
- Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration
- SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
Third and final reason you will be a better BizTalk professional or architect, when applying the knowledge found in BizTalk Patterns book and others. Who wouldn’t want that!
Book is available through Amazon and PACKT is self, so go to either of one and order it!
Cheers, and now I am off to diner.
