In my previous posts on Iron Foundry, I did a quick walkthrough of the tooling, and then showed how to use external libraries to communicate from the cloud to an on-premises service. One thing that I hadn’t done yet was use the various application services that are available to Iron Foundry application developers. In this… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
I recently authored and published a Pluralsight course on StreamInsight. As part of a marketing agreement between Microsoft and Pluralsight, the first module of this course is now available on Microsoft’s TechNet site. On the middle right of the page, you’ll see a promo section where you can launch this introductory module. No sign up,… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
Happy New Year and welcome to my 37th interview with a thought leader in the “connected systems” space. This month, we’re chatting with Paul Somers who is a consultant, Microsoft MVP, blogger, and speaker. Paul is well-known in the BizTalk community, so let’s pick his brain on the topic of integration. Q: Are you seeing… [Read more…]
December 30, 2011
2011 was an interesting year. I added 47 posts to this blog, produced three training courses for Pluralsight, started contributing a pair of articles per month for InfoQ.com, released my 3rd book, had speaking engagements in New Zealand, Sweden and China, started graduate school, and accepted a new job. I’m extremely thankful for all these… [Read more…]
December 27, 2011
I recently took a look at Iron Foundry and liked what I found. Let’s take a bit of a deeper look into how to deploy Iron Foundry .NET solutions that reference additional components. Specifically, I’ll show you how to use the new Windows Azure AppFabric brokered messaging to reliably send messages from Iron Foundry to… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
I’ve been working for the past number of months on a comprehensive Pluralsight training course on Microsoft StreamInsight. I was hoping that I could bang out the course in a short amount of time, but I quickly learned that I needed to get much deeper into the product before I was comfortable producing credible training… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
It’s been a good week for .NET developers who like the cloud. First, Microsoft makes a huge update to Windows Azure that improves everything from billing to support for lots of non-Microsoft platforms like memcached and Node.js. Second, there was a significant announcement today from Tier 3 regarding support for .NET in a Cloud Foundry… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
Greetings and welcome to the 36th interview in my monthly series of chat with thought leaders in connected technologies. This month we have the pleasure of talking to Clemens Vasters who is Principal Technical Lead on Microsoft’s Windows Azure AppFabric team, blogger, speaker, Tweeter, and all around interesting fellow. He is probably best known for… [Read more…]
November 15, 2011
So far in this blog series we’ve been looking at how Enterprise Integration Patterns apply to cloud integration scenarios. We’ve seen that a Shared Database Pattern works well when you have common data (and schema) and multiple consumers who want consistent access. The Remote Procedure Invocation Pattern is a good fit when one system desires… [Read more…]
November 1, 2011
This post continues a series where I revisit the classic Enterprise Integration Patterns with a cloud twist. So far, I’ve introduced the series and looked at the Shared Database pattern. In this post, we’ll look the second pattern: remote procedure invocation. What Is It? One uses this remote procedure call (RPC) pattern when they have… [Read more…]
January 24, 2012
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