Architecture

Two weeks ago I presented a session at the 50th meeting of the Lisbon Netponto Group, the largest community of .Net development in Lisboa. This two-hour session, which was...

You have to love that sentence, in an article about IT and its challenges. The article is titled "The Trouble With Enterprise Software", by Cynthia Rettig, and - much in...

Introduction In this article we will talk about Event-Driven Architectures. We choose to use the Azure Cloud Infrastructure.Service Bus provides reliable, secure asynchronous messaging at scale. This article is written by the engineering team at CreateIT and it is intended to show you a case study in one of our projects for a client. We'll take a deeper dive into the Service Bus technology, architecture, and design choices. The post will cover both conceptual material as well as implementation details. Most importantly, we will discuss design and implementation of some of the features that provide secure and reliable messaging at scale, while minimizing operational cost. Service Bus Entities When we are working with Azure Service Bus, we can choose two Entities: Topics or Queues. You can have multiple Topics or Queues per Service Bus Namespace, but firstly you need to differ one from another. If you want a FIFO queue and only have one Consumer,...

1º) Já está terminado o documento de Integration Patterns da Microsoft. É um dos mais documentos mais interessantes, juntando... integração... e patterns. :-) Inclui a descrição de do cenário...

The TAP for the next version of BizTalk, strangely pre-named “2010 R2” (instead of 2013) is open for nominations here. Of the list of new features, I am especially...

The second day started with a BizTalk Server session: "Enterprise Ready BizTalk - Best Practices from Customer Implementations", by Ewan Fairweather, one of the authors of the excellent "Professional...

This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier...

Steef-Jan has a great post about the next release of BizTalk Server in his blog. It seems to be mostly a platform upgrade, but the improvements in the area...

I still didn't read the reports about it, but this looks like it was a great event. Just look at the agenda: C#, Volta, IronRuby and Ruby.NET, the DLR,,...

Next week I’ll be off at PDC08, which is shaping up to be as good as PDC05 was, with a lot of sessions on Today’s hot topic: Cloud Computing....