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Technical Blogs Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services: Lessons in Configuring a (Service Bus) Queue SourceAn excellent tip by Mark Brimble on how to avoid this trap when...

A few years back I read Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man", a book that presented and defended the theory that the current political and...

Tomorrow morning I’ll be presenting a session on the topic or Architecture of Cloud Solutions at the Windows Azure evolution event in Lisbon. It’s an easy to follow...

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...

Logging in with Google, Microsoft and Facebook SDKs to Azure Mobile Services "One of the values that Azure Mobile Services provides is an easy way to implement authentication for mobile...

Last week (June 18) I presented two sessions at the 2nd edition of the TechRefresh event in Lisbon. The first session (“Azure WebSites: 9 new things”) was an update...

The BizTalk Server 2010 Feature Pack is an add-on to BizTalk Server 2010 that allows BizTalk functionality to be invoked from Windows Azure’s Service Bus. The feature pack specifically...

Last night I delivered a presentation in a GASP meeting on cloud computing, social networking, impacts on architecture, development, and even society. A conceptual and high-level session, destined to...

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,...