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.

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.