Azure BizTalk Microservices, initial thoughts

Today, Bill Staples mentioned a new Azure concept on the BizTalk Integration Summit in Redmond. Azure BizTalk Microservices is a new architecture that allows Azure customers to build composite applications, by using granular Microservices. In this post, I am giving my vision on this change of direction and I also take the chance to see where opportunities can be found for integration partners (like Codit) and where I see challenges for building enterprise integration solutions on top of this new platform.

Everybody loves Swagger

A successful API is one that is easy to consume, designed to understand the use and prevent misuse. To achieve that, the documentation is crucial. Providing an effective documentation helps to drive the APIs adoption and to reduce the learning curve to perform the API intake in the first place. Recently we have seen the emergence of new trends to describe and document APIs such as Swagger, RAML and apiblueprint.

Object promotion in a BizTalk send/receive pipeline

This blogpost will describe some weird behavior we've encountered while trying to promote an object to the context. We will take a look at the behavior during receiving and sending of a message.

Detecting the primary/backup transport type from a BizTalk pipeline

Ever needed the actions performed by a pipeline component to be different according to the usage of the main or backup transport? This post explains how you can implement a simple verification, before actually performing any of the required changes.

Sentinet Management API virtualization

In the extensibility series we explored how we extend Sentinet to add features to the product. In this post we will take a look at the Sentinet’s management API, a set of functions to interface the Sentinet's Repository.

WCF OutboundCustomHeaders and the BizTalk ServiceBus Adapter

Description of an issue when adding the WCF.OutboundCustomHeaders to the context when sending to the BizTalk ServiceBus adapter.