In a couple weeks, I’m off to Amsterdam and Gothenburg to speak at a pair of events. First, on January 22nd I’ll be in Amsterdam at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME. There will be a handful of speakers, and I’ll be presenting on the Patterns of Cloud Integration. It should be a […]
December 31, 2012
2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in Engineering. It was a blast visiting Australia to talk about integration technologies, going to Microsoft Convergence to talk about CRM […]
August 3, 2012
The StreamInsight team recently released a major new version of their Complex Event Processing engine and I’ve finally gotten a chance to start playing around with it. StreamInsight 2.1 introduced a new programming model that elevated the importance of IEnumerable/IObservable as event sources/sinks and deprioritized the traditional adapter model. In order to truly replace the […]
June 7, 2012
I recently did an in-person demonstration of how to use the cool Twilio service to send voice messages when Microsoft StreamInsight detected a fraud condition. In this blog post, I’ll walk through how I built the StreamInsight adapter, Twilio handler service and plugged it all together. Here is what I built, with each numbered activity […]
April 13, 2012
At the most recent MS MVP Summit, Dean Robertson, founder of IT consultancy Mexia, approached me about visiting Australia for a speaking tour. Since I like both speaking and koalas, this seemed like a good match. As a result, we’ve organized sessions for which you can now register to attend. I’ll be in Brisbane, Melbourne […]
April 6, 2012
In the past few days, there have been three sizable product announcements that should be of interest to the cloud/integration community. Specifically, there are noticeable improvements to Microsoft’s CEP engine StreamInsight, Windows Azure’s integration services, and Tier 3’s Iron Foundry PaaS. First off, the Microsoft StreamInsight team recently outlined changes that are coming in their […]
February 29, 2012
I’ve spent some time recently working with the asynchronous web event messaging engine SignalR. This framework uses JavaScript (with jQuery) on the client and ASP.NET on the server to enable very interactive communication patterns. The coolest part is being able to have the server-side application call a JavaScript function on each connected browser client. While […]
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, […]
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 […]
August 1, 2011
Greetings and welcome my 33rd interview with a thought leader in the “connected technology” space. This month, we’ve got the distinct pleasure of talking to Allan Mitchell. Allan is a SQL Server MVP, speaker and both joint owner and Integration Director of the new consulting shop, Copper Blue Consulting. Allan’s got excellent experience in the ETL […]
January 4, 2013
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