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Sending Messages to Azure AppFabric Service Bus Topics From Iron Foundry
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 […]
Interview Series: Four Questions With … Clemens Vasters
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 […]
Integration in the Cloud: Part 3 – Remote Procedure Invocation Pattern
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 […]
Integration in the Cloud: Part 1 – Introduction
October 28, 2011
I recently delivered a session at QCon Hangzhou (China) on the topic of “integration in the cloud.” In this series of blog posts, I will walk through a number of demos I built that integrate a variety of technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) SimpleDB, Windows Azure AppFabric, Salesforce.com, and a custom Ruby (Sinatra) app […]
Testing Out the New AppFabric Service Bus Relay Load Balancing
October 27, 2011
The Windows Azure team made a change in the back end to support multiple listeners on a single relay endpoint. This solves a known challenge with the Service Bus. Up until now, we had to be creative when building highly available Service Bus solutions since only a single listener could be live at one time. […]
Interview Series: Four Questions With … Ryan CrawCour
September 1, 2011
The summer is nearly over, but the “Four Questions” machine continues forward. In this 34th interview with a “connected technologies” thought leader, we’re talking with Ryan CrawCour who is a solutions architect, virtual technology specialist for Microsoft in the Windows Azure space, popular speaker and user group organizer. Q: We’ve seen the recent (CTP) release […]
Event Processing in the Cloud with StreamInsight Austin: Part II-Deploying to Windows Azure
July 18, 2011
In my previous post, I showed how to build StreamInsight adapters that receive Azure AppFabric messages and send Azure AppFabric messages. In this post, we see how to use these adapters to push events into a cloud-hosted StreamInsight application and send events back out. As a reminder, our final solution contains an on-premises consumer of […]
Is BizTalk Server Going Away At Some Point? Yes. Dead? Nope.
July 14, 2011
Another conference, another batch of “BizTalk future” discussions. This time, it’s the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft’s Tony Meleg actually did an excellent job frankly discussing the future of the middle platform and their challenges of branding and cohesion. I strongly encourage you to watch that session. I’ve avoided any discussion on the […]
Event Processing in the Cloud with StreamInsight Austin: Part I-Building an Azure AppFabric Adapter
July 13, 2011
StreamInsight is Microsoft’s (complex) event processing engine which takes in data and does in-memory pattern matching with the goal of uncovering real-time insight into information. The StreamInsight team at Microsoft recently announced their upcoming capability (code named “Austin”) to deploy StreamInsight applications to the Windows Azure cloud. I got my hands on the early bits […]
Sending Messages from Salesforce.com to BizTalk Server Through Windows Azure AppFabric
June 27, 2011
In a very short time, my latest book (actually Kent Weare’s book) will be released. One of my chapters covers techniques for integrating BizTalk Server and Salesforce.com. I recently demonstrated a few of these techniques for the BizTalk User Group Sweden, and I thought I’d briefly cover one of the key scenarios here. To be […]
Publications
Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
(Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
(Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
December 27, 2011
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