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.

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.

Five questions about Sentinet with Andrew Slivker

Sentinet by Nevatech is a lightweight and scalable middleware infrastructure that manages heterogeneous SOA and API services and applications deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environment.This week I'm in Barcelona attending the Microsoft TechEd so I stopped by at the Nevatech booth 63 and had a chat with Andrew Slivker, the CTO of Nevatech. I want to share some interesting questions that popped up during our conversation about Nevatech’s Sentinet software product.

Azure Hybrid Connections at AzureConf

On October 21, I presented on Azure Hybrid Connections in the Channel 9 studios in Redmond for the AzureConf conference, the biggest online Azure conference in the world. This blog post is the story of my day.