I just got back from delivering my presentation at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond. My talk went really well and I got some great questions and feedback from folks, so hopefully, they will invite me back again to present next year. I also had on opportunity to attend an SDR with the Dublin team to talk about deployment and monitoring. As usual, the session was very informative, and the Customer Experience team genuine in their openness for feedback to make the product the best that it can be.
The conference was a lot of fun and also served as a reminder that there is a tremendous amount of new technology coming out of the Connected Systems division at Microsoft. This fire-hose of new technology, and revs to existing products is going to provide revolutionary new ways of modeling business conversations and delivering business automation much more easily. .NET 4.0, including the third installment of both WCF and WF will bring both technologies together in a truly declarative manner. Dublin, a set of application server extensions that adds more robust hosting capabilities to II7 and WAS, support for persistence of durable services and granular monitoring capabilities will also debut in the 4.0 timeframe. Oslo, including rich modeling tools like Quadrant and M,will change how roles within teams interact to implement and manage business processes using workflow technologies. Azure is already making significant waves as a whole new paradigm for hosting and managing applications that require five-nines (or better) availability. And just when we can take no more, BizTalk Server 2009 is right around the corner, offering many improvements within a fully productized package of functionality that can be put right to work today.
Every month, the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group strives to bring you topics that might find relevance in your everyday jobs from industry experts and community influencers and the February meeting we have teed up will be no different!
Please join us as Brendon Birdoes, Principal Consultant, Connected Systems Practice Neudesic, presents the concepts of an Enterprise Service Bus, and dives deep into the features and patterns included in the next release of Microsoft's ESB Guidance to explain how to apply these features and patterns to problems faced everyday in the real world. .gif)
Having been working on the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team on the next version of BizTalk ESB Guidance, Brendon will bring his in the trenches expertise to bear to discuss some common scenarios and patterns that BizTalk ESB Guidance strives to deliver in this exciting new release.
Some of the features Brendon will cover include Itinerary based service invocation, Resolver Framework, Adapter Framework and Messaging Framework.
In addition, Brendon will cover important patterns including Mediation, Process Manager and Data Transformation.
Meeting Place: Microsoft District Office - 2929 N. Central Avenue,
Suite 1400, Phoenix, AZ
Meeting Time: Thursday, Feb 12 6pm to 7:30pm
More about PCSUG:
The goal of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group is to educate, evangelize and inform the community about the direction in which the Microsoft Connected Systems Division (and software engineering) is going, and how developers and architects of various, yet intersecting disciplines can start to prepare for what is ahead while serving the community through knowledge sharing and evangelism of current shipping technologies.
We meet the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Microsoft District Office - 2929 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1400, Phoenix, AZ from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.