BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts – day 20. Finally, the last blog post of this season. What supposed to be 20 blog posts in 20 days has become a challenge difficult to fulfill because of the current circumstances all over the world, in which parents are working from home with their children, also studying from home. Nevertheless, I only needed the double of time (additional 22 days) to finish the initial goal.
And to finalize this season, I reserved the best for the end :). My new BizTalk Server Lord Darth Vader sticker. I wasn’t supposed to share this sticker in this way, the initial intention was to present and give it away (physical sticker) at the INTEGRATE 2020 event in London but do the circumstances and the fact that INTEGRATE 2020 will be an online event now, I decided to share here the support files for you to print it in a graphics shop if you want to have this Welcome To The Dark Side of the force sticker :).
Welcome To The Dark Side of the force
BizTalk Server was always the bad boy of integration, the one that nobody likes (but everyone admires or wish to have its skills). As a reference, the first marketing campaign produced by Microsoft, BizTalk was a T-Rex (a bad boy).
Because I’m a star wars fan, and when I decide to create this new sticker version coincided a little bit as the release of the last film, I decide to create this new Lord BizTalk Darth Vader version maintaining the bad boy concept.
This package is a collection of 3 different image formats of the new Lord BizTalk Darth Vader sticker, two of them are available in vector format that will allow you to use and resize without losing quality:
BizTalk-Darth-Vader.ai
BizTalk-Darth-Vader.pdf
BizTalk-Darth-Vader-01.png
All of the
resources are in the original size ready to print in a graphics shop.
Thanks to Cristóvão Silva (Graphic & Web Designer @ DevScope) for helping me creating these resources.
I hope you enjoy!
I already have several stickers printed that I will give away in future events or ship for some of you that will organize events.
And of course, this was my answer: @WSilveiraNZ a new BizTalk Server 2020 sticker is being made… just to let you know #msbts but then Coen Dijkgraaf joined and asked if the sticker would be available on time for Global Integration Bootcamp?
I was undecided
about whether to publish or wait to INTEGRATE to be a surprise. But I at the
end I decided to create not one but two stickers:
On to published during the INTEGRATE event… spam alert: it is awesome!
And this one above to publish now in order for you all to grab it and go to a graphics shop to make your BizTalk Sticker. A simple and clean BizTalk Server 2020 sticker identical to the logo that I publish this week: BizTalk Server 2020: a new unofficial logo
This package is a collection of 3 different image formats of the new BizTalk
Server 2020 sticker, two of them are available in vector
format that will allow you to use and resize without losing quality:
BizTalkSticker.ai
BizTalkSticker.pdf
BizTalkSticker-01.png
All of the
resources are in the original size ready to print in a graphics shop.
Thanks to Cristóvão Silva (Graphic & Web Designer @ DevScope) for helping me creating these resources.
I don’t know exactly why but maybe because I’m always talking about BizTalk Server on every major event my friends have a tendency to say that I love my server and I live on my personal island:
Don’t get me wrong I do really love BizTalk Server and I don’t mind talking about the product, It’s something I do with pleasure because I talk about something I do really like but the main reason I talk every single time about BizTalk Server in major events is because the organizers ask me to speak about BizTalk Server – and I will never say no to that regardless of whether I would like or not to talk about other topics.
But despite that BizTalk Server is not the only tool I like, in fact, as I spoke about in my last talk in INTEGRATE 2018, you should use the best tool to address each particular problem, and me being an Integrator Magician, I do like other tools like API Management, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Power BI, PowerApps and Flows for example.
So, in response to one of my dear friends – Kent Weare – that normally say that I’m a server lover I created this my new sticker: “I Love My Flow”. Why, for two reasons:
obvious to annoy and play around with Kent – I know that he is happy with this;
but mostly because I love Flow and I think it has huge potential to be used in certain scenarios both in Enterprise or Personal context
The sticker has 3 similar variations but my favorite one is the first:
Hope you enjoy! In the download, you will find the sticker in vector format that you can use as you wish. My next task will be to print the sticker so I can offer in my next Flow speaking engagement.
Special thanks to my two coworkers at DevScope: António Lopes, the designer, and creator behind my idea.
You can download BizMan, The BizTalk Server SuperHero sticker from:
Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira
Let me tell you the story behind BizMan, The BizTalk Server SuperHero Sticker. On 12th May, during my session in the Integrate 2016 event in London about “A new set of BizTalk Server Tips and Tricks”, I announce that I had two BizTalk Server 2016 stickers versions to offer – probably one of the firsts BizTalk stickers ever – with the mythic phrase “The T-Rex is loose“ to celebrate the release of BizTalk Server 2016 version and one of them, of course, with a badass T-Rex and the other with a “dear”/”sweet” T-Rex version.
You need to remember that to commemorate the first release ever: BizTalk Server 2000 (on 12/12/2000) the BizTalk Server marketing folks designed a “killer” mouse pad for the product team with the phrase “The T-Rex is loose”.
Of course, BizTalk people love them… Who doesn’t like T-Rex? Who doesn’t like BizTalk?
Well to respond to the first question, I think all of us like T-Rex… because they don’t exist anymore, they appear in so many movies, they are so cool, they are so huge, Rex meaning “king” in Latin by the way… so the tyrant king it is badass!
To respond the second question: Many people, for many reasons, they simply don’t understand the product (but wish to all of their features for free) or they simply do not realize what enterprise integration is. (but that is a different topic that I will not enter into detail here)
And some of the feedback, if we can call it that way, that I received from these group of people (the ones that don’t like BizTalk Server – probably the same that are always saying BizTalk is dead) was more or like this:
“It is an old product, obsolete like the dinosaur”
BizTalk has never been so alive that is today, we are actually seeing the PRO INTEGRATION team at Microsoft investing heavily in the product, not only supporting new platform updates but actually bringing new capabilities at a faster pace to the product. So, my response to these group of people and to this type of comment is in the creation of a new sticker: The BizTalk Server SuperHero: THE BIZMAN!
If you want to add this sticker to your laptop or another area, you just need to download the zip file below and send it to a graphic shop. It as in the perfect size/resolution for printing.
I decide to call it BizMan but there were plenty of other amazing suggestions:
Hope you enjoy!
Special thanks to my two coworkers at DevScope: Frederico Junqueira, the artist and creator of the BizMan, The BizTalk Server SuperHero design and António Lopes for giving the final touches and help with everything related with the graphic.
You can download BizMan, The BizTalk Server SuperHero sticker from:
Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira
Lord BizTalk Darth Vader sticker
#msbts but then 
