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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,...

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....

Tuga IT is surely one of the best and biggest tech events happening at Portugal. Look at this: A three-day event with a full day of workshops and two full days...

The Global Windows Azure Bootcamp this year will include Lisbon. Next saturday, at Microsoft in Lisbon, starting at 09:00, a bunch of great speakers will present on Azure topics....

Just did the early-bird registration at Build 2013, this year in San Francisco, who’s recognizable bridge was the inspiration for the one we have in Lisboa. I’ll be attending...

I don't usually post lists of links, but I've been reading all that has been coming out following the Google's AppEngine announcement, and thought it would be a good...

Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog, on UC Berkeley’s Paper “Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing”.

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...

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...

Recently I had the need to index documents stored in Azure Storage Blobs. Additionally I wanted to use the blob storage metadata also to add some information to those...