Azure Stream Analytics, scenarios and introduction

Azure Stream Analytics is a very interesting service on the Azure platform that allows developers and data analysts to get interesting information or events out of a stream of incoming events. The service is part of the typical IoT value chain and is positioned in the transformation part. This post describes how to get started.

Oracle PL/SQL scripts with BizTalk Deployment Framework

Often the deployment of BizTalk solutions consists of more than deploying just BizTalk Applications. For example, when Oracle databases are involved it might be necessary to create and fill new tables and deploy new stored procedures and/or packages. In our daily practice most of the times the Oracle DBAs perform these deployments. But by incorporating these tasks into your BTDF-project, less coordination with other teams is necessary, and the quality of the deployment is improved.

Automatically expire messages in Azure Service Bus & how it works

Automatically expiring messages in Service Bus is a nice feature but you have to be aware that it does not "automatically" move expired messages to the dead-letter queue. In some scenarios this can cause reliability loss.

Securing Azure Service Bus relay endpoints with Shared Access Signatures

This post describes how you can secure specific azure service bus relay endpoints with Shared Access Signatures and move away from the ACS sharedsecret credentials.

Host Integration Server Roadmap

Today Microsoft went into more detail on the Host Integration roadmap. Read all about it in this article.

Azure Microservices – first glance

A first glance and closer look at the Azure Microservices technology, the new integration platform within the Microsoft stack.