In the last couple of months, I’ve been busy participating in several national and international events talking about Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI services, or as we now know: BizTalk as PaaS (BizTalk on the cloud).
It all started with the invitation of Nino Crudele to participate in the Overnet BizTalk Innovation Event and speak about EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) functionalities in Azure Service Bus, joining a great team composed of four MVPs and two of the strongest community members and BizTalk experts.
These services are still available only in the CPT (Community Technology Preview) version under the name Windows Azure Service Bus EAI and EDI Labs – April 2012 Release, and they provide common integration capabilities (e.g., bridges, transforms, B2B messaging) on Windows Azure Service Bus.
Monitor Azure Service Bus and achieve end-to-end message tracing in every business transaction stage, along with necessary properties.
However, before participating in this event, I had the opportunity, thanks to the invitation of Luis Calado (Microsoft Architect Evangelist), to participate and speak in a class about this topic:
Windows Azure One Day Lab, May 14 in Oporto
You can find the slides of this session here: Introduction to the azure service bus eai edi features.
Overnet BizTalk Innovation Event, May 24 in Milan
One week later, I was in Italy… along with fellow BizTalk MVPs: Nino Crudele, Saravana Kumar, and Steef-Jan Wiggers; and BizTalk experts and strong community members: Tord G. Nordahl and Lex Hegt.
In this session, we’ll see EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) functionalities like: how to manage EDI message exchanges and trading partners with the Azure EDI Portal; how to support Flat files; edit Schemas and transformation maps.
You can find all slides of this event at the BizTalk Events site:
- Tord Glad Nordahl – Throttling and thresholds
- Saravana Kumar – What is BizTalk360
- Steef-Jan Wiggers – Adapter Pack Integration Capabilities
- Sandro Pereira – Introduction to the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI features
- Nino Crudele – Wrapup (including roadmap and BizTalk 2010 R2)
5th Meeting of NetPonto Community, June 9 in Coimbra
I have already promised that I would participate in a NetPonto community event in Coimbra for some time; in fact, this event was to be done sooner, but for some reason, we had to postpone it to this date.
So, June 9 on a Saturday morning there I was introducing BizTalk on the cloud to a small but fantastic audience:
Resources:
- Introduction to the Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI features (session in Portuguese)
Note: The NetPonto Community is an independent and nonprofit initiative in Portugal, which aims to share knowledge in architecture and software development on the .NET platform, and all presentations are not traditional presentations but like a conversation between a group of people who like to talk and share knowledge about technology.
- Slides will be available soon
Windows Azure [R]Evolution, June 20 in Lisbon
Last but not least, and again invited by Luis Calado, I had the pleasure of participating in one of the biggest events of Windows Azure in Portugal this year.
Windows Azure [R]Evolution was an event composed of 4 Tracks: Developer, Web Developer, IT Pro, and Architects; and each track had four Technical Sessions.
I spoke in the Developer track about Windows Azure Service Bus (Queues and Topics), BizTalk on-prem, BizTalk as IaaS, and especially about BizTalk as PaaS.
You can download the slides of this session:
More about this event here.
Other resources
All demos will be available soon.
EAI Bridge Message Sender and Queue Message Receive
This is an improved version of the tool I used in my session to send messages to the EAI Bridges. EAI Bridge Message Sender and Queue Message Receive, bringing together these two console application tools: MessageReceiver and MessageSender in a single Windows Form Application, easily and fast to use, and where we store our default values.
Upcoming events
Bouvet BizTalk Innovation Event, September 26 and 27, 2012 in Stavanger (Norway)
EVENT INFORMATION: Be prepared for the largest BizTalk event ever organized in Scandinavia! Join four MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals) and two of the strongest and most active community members for a spectacular BizTalk community event. This event follows a strong series of events that have already been held in the Netherlands, Italy, and now Norway.
During this event, there will be a series of cutting-edge presentations:
- BizTalk adapter pack: Best practice and a presentation of the versatile integration capabilities of the adapter pack!
- Azure and connected systems (formerly known as AppFabric connected systems) – EAI Integration done correctly, to the cloud and beyond!
- Jump into the usage of thresholds and throttling to squeeze the BizTalk environment to the MAX.
- Large BizTalk environments, hundreds of servers, and multiple adapters: how was it done and how did it scale?
- Also introducing the new standard in BizTalk monitoring: BizTalk 360.
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