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Speaking at INTEGRATE 2016 Next Month
Do you live in Europe and have affection for application integration? If so, then I hope to see you at INTEGRATE 2016. This annual conference has become a must-attend event for those interested in...
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Trying out the “standard” and “enterprise” templates in Azure Logic Apps
Is the Microsoft integration team “back”? It might be premature to say that Microsoft has finally figured out its app integration story, but the signs are very positive. There’s been a fresh influx of...
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2016 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights
2016 was a wild year for plenty of folks. Me too, I guess. The wildest part was joining Pivotal and signing up for a job I’d never done before. I kept busy in other ways in 2016, including teaching a...
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Creating a JSON-Friendly Azure Logic App That Interacts with Functions,...
I like what Microsoft’s doing in the app integration space. They breathed new life into their classic integration bus (BizTalk Server). The family of Azure Service Bus technologies (Queues, Topics,...
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How should you model your event-driven processes?
During most workdays, I exist in a state of continuous partial attention. I bounce between (planned and unplanned) activities, and accept that I’m often interrupt-driven. While that’s not an ideal...
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Using speaking opportunities as learning opportunities
Over this summer, I’ll be speaking at a handful of events. I sign myself up for these opportunities —in addition to teaching courses for Pluralsight —so that I commit time to learning new things....
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Introducing cloud-native integration (and why you should care!)
I’ve got three kids now. Trying to get anywhere on time involves heroics. My son is almost ten years old and he’s rarely the problem. The bottleneck is elsewhere. It doesn’t matter how much faster my...
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Surprisingly simple messaging with Spring Cloud Stream
You’ve got a lot of options when connecting microservices together. You could use service discovery and make direct calls. Or you might use a shared database to transfer work. But message brokers...
View ArticleHere’s where you’ll find me over the Summer
I mean, you’ll mainly find me in Seattle, where I actually live. But, I’m also speaking on a variety of topics at a few shows over the next few months, and thought I’d point those out. “Architecting...
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Where to host your integration bus
RightScale recently announced the results of their annual “State of the Cloud” survey. You can find the report here, and my InfoQ.com story here. A lot of people participated in the survey, and the...
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