Welcome to the 27th interview in my series with thought leaders in the “connected systems” space. This month, we’re sitting down with Rick Garibay who is GM of the Connected Systems group at Neudesic, blogger, Microsoft MVP and rabid tweeter. Let’s jump in. Q: Lately you’ve been evangelizing Windows Server AppFabric, WF and other new… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
This week I participated in a leadership breakfast hosted by the Cowen Group. The breakfast was attended by lawyers and IT personnel from a variety of industries including media and entertainment, manufacturing, law, electronics, healthcare, utilities and more. The point of the roundtable was to discuss the impact of cloud computing on eDiscovery and included… [Read more…]
January 13, 2011
In the first part of this series, I compared the WCF Routing Service with BizTalk Server for messaging routing scenarios. That post was a decent initial assessment of the Routing Service, but if I stopped there, I wouldn’t be giving the additional information needed for you to make a well-informed decision. In this post, we’ll… [Read more…]
January 11, 2011
A paper was released today which outlines some scenarios for combining SSIS with StreamInsight. In essence, they are trying to show the value of using a streaming, time-oriented engine alongside a data transformation and quality engine. They specifically call out two patterns: embedding StreamInsight within SSIS and embedding SSIS within StreamInsight. The background discussion is… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011
One common complaint about BizTalk Server is that it’s not particular lightweight (many moving parts) and isn’t easy for an expert .NET developer to pick up immediately. I suspect this is one reason why we’ve seen multiple other .NET service buses (e.g. nServiceBus) pop up as viable alternatives. So, when it was announced that WCF… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
In 2008 I was paid to write a series of articles about how BizTalk Server and WCF integrated. As a result of that nine-part series, I was pinged about writing my first book, which turned into my second book, and so on. So, I hold a fondness for that series of articles. That said, I’ve… [Read more…]
January 31, 2011
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