BizTalk Architects have always taken themselves a bit too seriously and have been able to dictate rules for integration based on things that is important to no one but them.
Only the BizTalk architect really care about port names and making the BizTalk environment look pretty. We are at a time in history were “integration is hard” is becoming less and less of an excuse for such behavior. Both technology and people have become smarter and integration has shifted to a more function based focus. Make it work is more important than make is pretty and reusable.
I will be presenting a solution to all these problems.
Serverless tools for integrating systemsBizTalk360
See how Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions can be powerful tools in your toolkit, and the benefits and challenges to be aware of. Get updates on the latest features to assist in development, deployment, and management of server-less integration solutions.
Create a modern(ish) BAM portal in (roughly) one hour!BizTalk360
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) can provide real value to an organisation but is often not implemented as part of a BizTalk solution. This session will demonstrate how to develop and deploy a BAM activity and tracking profile. The focus will then move onto development of a custom web portal to provide a consolidated view of data from BAM, Exceptions and Payload Archive databases.
This document summarizes Tim Cunningham's presentation on using ColdFusion API Manager. Some key points include:
- ColdFusion API Manager can help manage and publish APIs, including access control, analytics, versioning and portals.
- Primoris faced challenges with inconsistent documentation and APIs from other companies. API Manager helps address these issues.
- While ColdFusion API Manager claims to be easy to set up, there are sometimes additional steps needed, especially for non-ColdFusion or legacy APIs. Swagger can help integrate documentation.
- Swagger and OpenAPI specifications are useful for documenting APIs in a standardized, machine-readable format that keeps documentation and code in sync.
Dave Ferguson gave a presentation on creating mobile applications using ColdFusion 11. He began by introducing himself and his background. The presentation covered the mobile features of ColdFusion 11, how to create real mobile apps, and the role of ColdFusion Builder. Ferguson demonstrated how to build mobile apps that can be installed on devices or run in browsers from the same ColdFusion source code. He also showed examples of mobile apps created with ColdFusion and discussed debugging mobile apps remotely with Weinre. Ferguson concluded by explaining how ColdFusion Builder can be used to package and deploy mobile applications.
Shirak Avakian presented at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2015 on workflow in ColdFusion, PDF digital signatures, and the directory watcher. The presentation introduced the speaker and covered topics including how to create workflows in ColdFusion using the CFWorkflow component from GitHub, how digital signatures and public key infrastructure work with encrypting and validating PDFs in ColdFusion, and how to set up a directory watcher gateway to monitor a folder for changes. Demo code was provided to illustrate these ColdFusion features.
This document provides guidance on securing existing ColdFusion applications with large codebases. It recommends beginning the process by deleting unused code and implementing version control. It then advises patching the ColdFusion server, locking down server permissions, and implementing a web application firewall. The document outlines prioritizing the fixing of high risk vulnerabilities like file uploads, dynamic evaluation, SQL injection, and file system access. It provides code examples and tips for finding and fixing issues related to evaluate, IIF, file uploads, path traversals, and SQL injection. Finally, it mentions additional areas to review like session handling, scope injection, authentication, and cross-site scripting.
Low-Code Integrations in Alfresco Process Services using MuleSoftCiju Joseph
This document discusses using MuleSoft to enable low-code integrations between Alfresco Process Services (APS) and cloud platforms like Salesforce and Zuora. It provides an overview of a demo that builds a review business process in APS and integrates it with Salesforce and Zuora APIs via MuleSoft. MuleSoft facilitates the low-code API development through its rich connector library and data mapping features, allowing the demo process to retrieve and send data between the systems. A hands-on section then guides building out the remaining components of the demo to showcase the full end-to-end integration workflow.
This document discusses using Vagrant and VirtualBox to create a virtual development environment for ColdFusion applications. It outlines installing Vagrant and VirtualBox, creating a Windows virtual machine, provisioning it with ColdFusion and IIS, and accessing the VM from the host computer. The benefits mentioned are having a repeatable, isolated environment that saves time over manual setup and allows teams to work consistently.
Serverless tools for integrating systemsBizTalk360
See how Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions can be powerful tools in your toolkit, and the benefits and challenges to be aware of. Get updates on the latest features to assist in development, deployment, and management of server-less integration solutions.
Create a modern(ish) BAM portal in (roughly) one hour!BizTalk360
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) can provide real value to an organisation but is often not implemented as part of a BizTalk solution. This session will demonstrate how to develop and deploy a BAM activity and tracking profile. The focus will then move onto development of a custom web portal to provide a consolidated view of data from BAM, Exceptions and Payload Archive databases.
This document summarizes Tim Cunningham's presentation on using ColdFusion API Manager. Some key points include:
- ColdFusion API Manager can help manage and publish APIs, including access control, analytics, versioning and portals.
- Primoris faced challenges with inconsistent documentation and APIs from other companies. API Manager helps address these issues.
- While ColdFusion API Manager claims to be easy to set up, there are sometimes additional steps needed, especially for non-ColdFusion or legacy APIs. Swagger can help integrate documentation.
- Swagger and OpenAPI specifications are useful for documenting APIs in a standardized, machine-readable format that keeps documentation and code in sync.
Dave Ferguson gave a presentation on creating mobile applications using ColdFusion 11. He began by introducing himself and his background. The presentation covered the mobile features of ColdFusion 11, how to create real mobile apps, and the role of ColdFusion Builder. Ferguson demonstrated how to build mobile apps that can be installed on devices or run in browsers from the same ColdFusion source code. He also showed examples of mobile apps created with ColdFusion and discussed debugging mobile apps remotely with Weinre. Ferguson concluded by explaining how ColdFusion Builder can be used to package and deploy mobile applications.
Shirak Avakian presented at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2015 on workflow in ColdFusion, PDF digital signatures, and the directory watcher. The presentation introduced the speaker and covered topics including how to create workflows in ColdFusion using the CFWorkflow component from GitHub, how digital signatures and public key infrastructure work with encrypting and validating PDFs in ColdFusion, and how to set up a directory watcher gateway to monitor a folder for changes. Demo code was provided to illustrate these ColdFusion features.
This document provides guidance on securing existing ColdFusion applications with large codebases. It recommends beginning the process by deleting unused code and implementing version control. It then advises patching the ColdFusion server, locking down server permissions, and implementing a web application firewall. The document outlines prioritizing the fixing of high risk vulnerabilities like file uploads, dynamic evaluation, SQL injection, and file system access. It provides code examples and tips for finding and fixing issues related to evaluate, IIF, file uploads, path traversals, and SQL injection. Finally, it mentions additional areas to review like session handling, scope injection, authentication, and cross-site scripting.
Low-Code Integrations in Alfresco Process Services using MuleSoftCiju Joseph
This document discusses using MuleSoft to enable low-code integrations between Alfresco Process Services (APS) and cloud platforms like Salesforce and Zuora. It provides an overview of a demo that builds a review business process in APS and integrates it with Salesforce and Zuora APIs via MuleSoft. MuleSoft facilitates the low-code API development through its rich connector library and data mapping features, allowing the demo process to retrieve and send data between the systems. A hands-on section then guides building out the remaining components of the demo to showcase the full end-to-end integration workflow.
This document discusses using Vagrant and VirtualBox to create a virtual development environment for ColdFusion applications. It outlines installing Vagrant and VirtualBox, creating a Windows virtual machine, provisioning it with ColdFusion and IIS, and accessing the VM from the host computer. The benefits mentioned are having a repeatable, isolated environment that saves time over manual setup and allows teams to work consistently.
The document discusses partnerships between ColdFusion and independent software vendors (ISVs). It profiles one such partnership between Adobe and VSR Systems, a software company that provides two ColdFusion-based business solutions: an ERP system and a warehouse management system. The ERP system has been in use for over 15 years by over 120 brands, processing $650 million in annual sales. The WMS also services logistics companies. ColdFusion was chosen as it allows for reduced development time compared to other languages, enabling the company to focus on code design.
Introducing ASP.NET vNext - A tour of the new ASP.NET platformJeffrey T. Fritz
This document introduces ASP.NET vNext, which is a new modular and open source version of ASP.NET that is faster, more flexible, and optimized for cloud deployment. It highlights key changes like being totally modular, using NuGet packages, supporting new project types, and merging MVC, Web API, and Web Pages. The document warns that ASP.NET vNext is not ready for production and is intended to show the direction ASP.NET is headed. Resources for learning more are provided.
ColdFusion 2016 includes many hidden gems in areas like installation, configuration, administration, web server configuration, new and changed features, and the CFML language. The document provides details on improvements to features like the installation process, CF Admin, wsconfig, PDF support, new language constructs like the safe navigation operator, new member functions, and updated underlying libraries. It also mentions deprecated features in ColdFusion 2016 and areas that will see changes in future releases.
This document discusses using Selenium WebDriver for end-to-end testing of INTER-Mediator. It recommends using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby for testing web applications built with INTER-Mediator and running those tests on GitHub, Travis CI, CircleCI, and GitLab CI. Examples are provided for setting up Selenium WebDriver with INTER-Mediator on a development VM and running sample tests that launch Google Chrome and Firefox browsers.
Build your own secure and real-time dashboard for mobile and webColdFusionConference
This document discusses how to build secure and real-time dashboards for mobile and web using ColdFusion. It covers the features required in a dashboard like real-time updates, graphs, notifications and report generation. It demonstrates the architecture of a monitoring dashboard with ColdFusion running on a server collecting and processing data that is displayed. It provides code snippets for implementing websockets, analytics, report generation and security. Customizable dashboards can be created by changing configuration files.
This document provides an overview of new features in FileMaker Server 17 including improved support for INTER-Mediator, the FileMaker Data API, enhanced security and administration capabilities, and system requirements. Key areas covered include using INTER-Mediator with FileMaker Server 17's CWP, the new FileMaker Data API, administrative tools and interfaces like the Admin Console, and SSL/TLS security enhancements. Support resources and links are also provided.
Kevin Schmidt is a managing partner at Ikaria Consulting who specializes in ColdFusion and APIs. The document discusses REST, how to create RESTful services in ColdFusion using CFCs and defining attributes like restPath and access, and how to register and consume those services. It also provides details on the ColdFusion API Manager for access control, analytics, and custom workflows for administrators, publishers and subscribers.
The document summarizes Microsoft technologies that can be used with PHP development, including:
- PHP can run on IIS using FastCGI for better performance than older methods like CGI.
- The SQL Server driver for PHP allows access to SQL Server databases.
- The Microsoft AJAX Library allows PHP applications to leverage AJAX capabilities.
- Silverlight is a tool for media and rich interactive applications that can integrate with PHP.
- Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is a re-write of Entity Framework from the ground up to be lightweight, extensible, and support new platforms and data stores.
- EF Core 1.0 focuses on being code-first only and supports relational databases via providers, while also aiming to support non-relational stores.
- EF Core is optimized for memory and CPU usage compared to the larger EF6 by using a modular, dependency-injected core and pay-per-play components.
- EF6 will still be supported but EF Core is meant for new applications targeting .NET Core and platforms like ASP.NET Core and Universal Windows Platform.
This document summarizes new features in Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, and C# 4.0. Key updates include improved tooling for cloud, parallel, and TDD development in Visual Studio 2010. .NET 4.0 features enhancements to the base class library like code contracts and parallel extensions. New C# 4.0 features are dynamic lookup, named and optional arguments, improvements for COM interop, and variance support through out and in keywords. The presenter encourages attendees to try the Visual Studio 2010 CTP and familiarize themselves with these new technologies.
Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIRfunkatron
The document discusses building desktop applications with Adobe AIR using web technologies like PHP, HTML, and JavaScript. AIR allows developers to create desktop apps using these web technologies by packaging them into an executable that can be run on Windows, Mac or Linux systems. It works by embedding a Flash Player with special AIR APIs and a HTMLLoader control that uses the same WebKit engine as Safari to display HTML content. Developers can build AIR apps using Flex, Flash or plain HTML/JS/CSS and package them with an application descriptor file and initial content file.
Migration to ColdFusion 11 – making it seamless and easy anitColdFusionConference
Anit Kumar Panda is a senior product consultant for ColdFusion at Adobe who provides support to ColdFusion customers globally. The document discusses migrating to ColdFusion 11, including understanding changes across versions, planning the migration process, installing ColdFusion 11, migrating ColdFusion settings using CAR files, migrating deployed applications using code analyzers, common migration tweaks, and potential web server errors. The timeline for a typical migration is estimated to be around 30 minutes.
This document provides a summary of the history of ASP.NET and the motivation for OWIN and Katana. It discusses how ASP.NET has evolved from ASP in 1996 to include MVC in 2009 and Web API in 2012. This led to a desire for frameworks that are not dependent on IIS and can be more modular. OWIN was created as an open standard to provide an abstraction between web servers and frameworks. Katana is Microsoft's implementation of OWIN. It presents an overview of how OWIN and Katana work using an environment dictionary and application delegate. The document concludes with a demo showing how to create a simple "Hello World" app using OWIN and Katana both with IIS and by self-host
This document provides an overview of how to improve security when using ColdFusion 2016. It discusses installing ColdFusion with the secure profile, following the lockdown guide, applying updates, and using the new Security Analyzer tool. The Security Analyzer checks code for vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF. The document also recommends coding practices to avoid vulnerabilities, such as using ESAPI encoders and <cfqueryparam>. Proper session management and preventing attacks like XSS, SQL injection, and CSRF are also discussed.
Revised talk held by Sebastian Thoß and Sebastian Heuer at International PHP Conference 2016 in Munich.
"Legacy software can be like a zombie: it somehow still works, but nobody would consider it alive and well anymore and the thought of having to touch it makes you want to run away. So what can you do to get rid of it? We are currently replacing our monolithic e-commerce platform with a shiny new custom-tailored solution and want to show you what we do and what we have already learned."
This document discusses DevOps and how its principles and tools can be applied to Magento. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and an overview of DevOps, focusing on collaboration between development and operations teams. It then discusses specific DevOps tools and practices like infrastructure as code, continuous integration/delivery, monitoring, and how they have been applied to Magento at VSHN including packaging, deployment, and clustering of the Magento stack. It concludes with an introduction to VSHN and a call for questions.
The document discusses load balancing, failover, and scalability with ColdFusion. It covers modeling applications for scalability, ColdFusion and web server configurations, ColdFusion clustering, load balancing with the Tomcat connector, session management strategies, and provides an agenda for a demo on load balancing and failover. The presentation will look at building environments to support business critical applications with high availability and uninterrupted service.
The document provides an overview of building applications using ColdFusion and AngularJS. It discusses requirements for a player registration application using ColdFusion as the server-side and AngularJS as the client-side framework. It covers building the ColdFusion REST API, core AngularJS features used in the client, and integrating the two by calling the ColdFusion API from AngularJS.
Application Lifecycle Management for BizTalk solutions is quite challenging. Many community tools are available, but it’s not straightforward to combine them into one solution. In this session, Toon will focus on how to set up Continuous Integration for your BizTalk solutions, based on experience from the field. Some tips and tricks on automatic unit testing, build, deployment and integration testing.
FHIR refers to Fast Health Interoperable Resources, and it is the next generation standards framework, and combines the best features of HL7 Version 2, Version 3, and the CDA product lines. If you work with HL7 Version 3 Product Suite, Continuity of Care Document (CD), or CDA - then you will know how complex it gets to work with these in BizTalk. FHIR standard helps you to overcome this problem. In this session, Howard Edidin speaks about the problems that FHIR® solves.
The document discusses partnerships between ColdFusion and independent software vendors (ISVs). It profiles one such partnership between Adobe and VSR Systems, a software company that provides two ColdFusion-based business solutions: an ERP system and a warehouse management system. The ERP system has been in use for over 15 years by over 120 brands, processing $650 million in annual sales. The WMS also services logistics companies. ColdFusion was chosen as it allows for reduced development time compared to other languages, enabling the company to focus on code design.
Introducing ASP.NET vNext - A tour of the new ASP.NET platformJeffrey T. Fritz
This document introduces ASP.NET vNext, which is a new modular and open source version of ASP.NET that is faster, more flexible, and optimized for cloud deployment. It highlights key changes like being totally modular, using NuGet packages, supporting new project types, and merging MVC, Web API, and Web Pages. The document warns that ASP.NET vNext is not ready for production and is intended to show the direction ASP.NET is headed. Resources for learning more are provided.
ColdFusion 2016 includes many hidden gems in areas like installation, configuration, administration, web server configuration, new and changed features, and the CFML language. The document provides details on improvements to features like the installation process, CF Admin, wsconfig, PDF support, new language constructs like the safe navigation operator, new member functions, and updated underlying libraries. It also mentions deprecated features in ColdFusion 2016 and areas that will see changes in future releases.
This document discusses using Selenium WebDriver for end-to-end testing of INTER-Mediator. It recommends using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby for testing web applications built with INTER-Mediator and running those tests on GitHub, Travis CI, CircleCI, and GitLab CI. Examples are provided for setting up Selenium WebDriver with INTER-Mediator on a development VM and running sample tests that launch Google Chrome and Firefox browsers.
Build your own secure and real-time dashboard for mobile and webColdFusionConference
This document discusses how to build secure and real-time dashboards for mobile and web using ColdFusion. It covers the features required in a dashboard like real-time updates, graphs, notifications and report generation. It demonstrates the architecture of a monitoring dashboard with ColdFusion running on a server collecting and processing data that is displayed. It provides code snippets for implementing websockets, analytics, report generation and security. Customizable dashboards can be created by changing configuration files.
This document provides an overview of new features in FileMaker Server 17 including improved support for INTER-Mediator, the FileMaker Data API, enhanced security and administration capabilities, and system requirements. Key areas covered include using INTER-Mediator with FileMaker Server 17's CWP, the new FileMaker Data API, administrative tools and interfaces like the Admin Console, and SSL/TLS security enhancements. Support resources and links are also provided.
Kevin Schmidt is a managing partner at Ikaria Consulting who specializes in ColdFusion and APIs. The document discusses REST, how to create RESTful services in ColdFusion using CFCs and defining attributes like restPath and access, and how to register and consume those services. It also provides details on the ColdFusion API Manager for access control, analytics, and custom workflows for administrators, publishers and subscribers.
The document summarizes Microsoft technologies that can be used with PHP development, including:
- PHP can run on IIS using FastCGI for better performance than older methods like CGI.
- The SQL Server driver for PHP allows access to SQL Server databases.
- The Microsoft AJAX Library allows PHP applications to leverage AJAX capabilities.
- Silverlight is a tool for media and rich interactive applications that can integrate with PHP.
- Entity Framework Core (EF Core) 1.0 is a re-write of Entity Framework from the ground up to be lightweight, extensible, and support new platforms and data stores.
- EF Core 1.0 focuses on being code-first only and supports relational databases via providers, while also aiming to support non-relational stores.
- EF Core is optimized for memory and CPU usage compared to the larger EF6 by using a modular, dependency-injected core and pay-per-play components.
- EF6 will still be supported but EF Core is meant for new applications targeting .NET Core and platforms like ASP.NET Core and Universal Windows Platform.
This document summarizes new features in Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4.0, and C# 4.0. Key updates include improved tooling for cloud, parallel, and TDD development in Visual Studio 2010. .NET 4.0 features enhancements to the base class library like code contracts and parallel extensions. New C# 4.0 features are dynamic lookup, named and optional arguments, improvements for COM interop, and variance support through out and in keywords. The presenter encourages attendees to try the Visual Studio 2010 CTP and familiarize themselves with these new technologies.
Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML & Javascript in AIRfunkatron
The document discusses building desktop applications with Adobe AIR using web technologies like PHP, HTML, and JavaScript. AIR allows developers to create desktop apps using these web technologies by packaging them into an executable that can be run on Windows, Mac or Linux systems. It works by embedding a Flash Player with special AIR APIs and a HTMLLoader control that uses the same WebKit engine as Safari to display HTML content. Developers can build AIR apps using Flex, Flash or plain HTML/JS/CSS and package them with an application descriptor file and initial content file.
Migration to ColdFusion 11 – making it seamless and easy anitColdFusionConference
Anit Kumar Panda is a senior product consultant for ColdFusion at Adobe who provides support to ColdFusion customers globally. The document discusses migrating to ColdFusion 11, including understanding changes across versions, planning the migration process, installing ColdFusion 11, migrating ColdFusion settings using CAR files, migrating deployed applications using code analyzers, common migration tweaks, and potential web server errors. The timeline for a typical migration is estimated to be around 30 minutes.
This document provides a summary of the history of ASP.NET and the motivation for OWIN and Katana. It discusses how ASP.NET has evolved from ASP in 1996 to include MVC in 2009 and Web API in 2012. This led to a desire for frameworks that are not dependent on IIS and can be more modular. OWIN was created as an open standard to provide an abstraction between web servers and frameworks. Katana is Microsoft's implementation of OWIN. It presents an overview of how OWIN and Katana work using an environment dictionary and application delegate. The document concludes with a demo showing how to create a simple "Hello World" app using OWIN and Katana both with IIS and by self-host
This document provides an overview of how to improve security when using ColdFusion 2016. It discusses installing ColdFusion with the secure profile, following the lockdown guide, applying updates, and using the new Security Analyzer tool. The Security Analyzer checks code for vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF. The document also recommends coding practices to avoid vulnerabilities, such as using ESAPI encoders and <cfqueryparam>. Proper session management and preventing attacks like XSS, SQL injection, and CSRF are also discussed.
Revised talk held by Sebastian Thoß and Sebastian Heuer at International PHP Conference 2016 in Munich.
"Legacy software can be like a zombie: it somehow still works, but nobody would consider it alive and well anymore and the thought of having to touch it makes you want to run away. So what can you do to get rid of it? We are currently replacing our monolithic e-commerce platform with a shiny new custom-tailored solution and want to show you what we do and what we have already learned."
This document discusses DevOps and how its principles and tools can be applied to Magento. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and an overview of DevOps, focusing on collaboration between development and operations teams. It then discusses specific DevOps tools and practices like infrastructure as code, continuous integration/delivery, monitoring, and how they have been applied to Magento at VSHN including packaging, deployment, and clustering of the Magento stack. It concludes with an introduction to VSHN and a call for questions.
The document discusses load balancing, failover, and scalability with ColdFusion. It covers modeling applications for scalability, ColdFusion and web server configurations, ColdFusion clustering, load balancing with the Tomcat connector, session management strategies, and provides an agenda for a demo on load balancing and failover. The presentation will look at building environments to support business critical applications with high availability and uninterrupted service.
The document provides an overview of building applications using ColdFusion and AngularJS. It discusses requirements for a player registration application using ColdFusion as the server-side and AngularJS as the client-side framework. It covers building the ColdFusion REST API, core AngularJS features used in the client, and integrating the two by calling the ColdFusion API from AngularJS.
Application Lifecycle Management for BizTalk solutions is quite challenging. Many community tools are available, but it’s not straightforward to combine them into one solution. In this session, Toon will focus on how to set up Continuous Integration for your BizTalk solutions, based on experience from the field. Some tips and tricks on automatic unit testing, build, deployment and integration testing.
FHIR refers to Fast Health Interoperable Resources, and it is the next generation standards framework, and combines the best features of HL7 Version 2, Version 3, and the CDA product lines. If you work with HL7 Version 3 Product Suite, Continuity of Care Document (CD), or CDA - then you will know how complex it gets to work with these in BizTalk. FHIR standard helps you to overcome this problem. In this session, Howard Edidin speaks about the problems that FHIR® solves.
In this Integration Monday session, Tomasso will show real time demos on how you can extend the ESB Toolkit depending on the requirements.You will also know how to store web services in the Sentinet SOA Repository from Nevatech and use the Sentinet Resolver to dynamically determine the URL of the webservice.
What’s right & wrong with WCF-WebHTTP Adapter?BizTalk360
This document discusses the pros and cons of using the WCF-WebHTTP adapter in BizTalk, including issues with Azure service bus relays, error handling, and the JSON encoder and decoder. Workarounds are presented for common problems, such as relays only supporting the base URL and the encoder/decoder having date/time and number formatting issues. The document provides links to blog posts with more details on issues and workarounds for the WCF-WebHTTP adapter in BizTalk.
2 Speed IT powered by Microsoft Azure and MinecraftBizTalk360
In this session, Mike will show how a model reference architecture in Azure and Minecraft can be used by architects to visualize solutions that you want your teams to build.
In this session, Steef-Jan Wiggers and Eldert Grootenboer will provide you an overview over all the different extensibility points and will demonstrate a few of them in demo’s.
In this session Johann will explain some of the basics of the BizTalk BRE before moving on to advanced topics. Some of the basics include an explanation of what facts are and how the BRE works with them, rule priorities, long running facts, versioning and source control, and deployment. He will then demonstrate some more advanced topics such as executing business rules from a .NET application, rules traceability, and will discuss how to assert the various different types of facts. Finally he will explain and demonstrate the usage of the BRE Pipeline Framework CodePlex project to build loosely coupled and lightweight solutions with minimal custom development.
Business activity tracking and monitoring in Logic AppsBizTalk360
Logic Apps is aligned with Azure platforms monitoring capabilities. It offers out of the box telemetry on which you can set alerts. Apart from this it has built in mechanism to track the business data. In this session, I will explain the options available for tracking business data and I will walk you through the built-in OMS solution for EDI B2B connectors in integration account.
Monitoring on premise biz talk applications using cloud based power bi saasBizTalk360
This document discusses monitoring on-premise BizTalk applications using cloud-based Power BI SaaS. BizTalk was used for real-time and batch processes integrating various systems like Guidewire, OnBase, and a customer portal. Power BI was chosen as the monitoring solution because it provided rich dashboards and reports without requiring installation. Key performance indicators like volume, duration, message size, and throughput were monitored from BizTalk and other data sources. Alerts were generated when service level agreements were not met. The demonstration showed important visualizations and alerts in Power BI for monitoring a business process.
This document discusses connecting BizTalk Server to SQL AlwaysOn databases and building a highly available BizTalk Server 2016 environment using SQL Server 2016 availability groups. It begins with an overview of SQL AlwaysOn databases and how they provide high availability and disaster recovery. It then covers how to connect BizTalk Server to an AlwaysOn database using the WCF-SQL adapter and inline SQL. The remainder discusses building a BizTalk Server 2016 highly available environment in Azure using SQL Server 2016 availability groups.
In this Integration Monday session, Steef-Jan Wiggers talks about the great deal of features that Microsoft BizTalk provides out of the box, and how you can customize those features depending on your requirement. During the session, Steef talks about custom adapters, behaviors, functoids, xslt, pipelines, and .NET code (helper classes, error handling).
Hybrid Integration using BizTalk and AzureBizTalk360
These days we see more and more companies moving parts of their infrastructure to the cloud, however not all data will be moved to the cloud. In this session, we will deep-dive into the options which Azure provides us to integrate the cloud with our on-prem systems, like BizTalk and Sql. A session full of BizTalk, Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Service Bus and more. Using these systems together provides us a hybrid integration strategy which we can use to build more powerful integrations at a faster pace.
Service Bus Premium Messaging: Understanding how it works and when to use Sta...BizTalk360
Premium Messaging is an Azure Service Bus feature that provides higher throughput and lower latency compared to the standard tier. It works by distributing messages across multiple partitions in the backend to improve scalability. The document recommends using Premium Messaging for workloads that require high throughput and low latency, and the standard tier for simpler workloads that don't have intensive scalability requirements.
This presentation is from the Integration Monday session organized by Integration User Group held on September 19, 2016. In this presentation, Microsoft Integration Consultant Eldert Grootenboer gives an introduction on "Integration of Things". In this session, Eldert will show how you can set up integration by integrating your IoT devices and process, store and analyze the data in real time.
Using ELK-Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana) with BizTalk ServerBizTalk360
ELK-Stack is world’s most popular log management platform. These open-source products are most commonly used in log analysis in IT environments. Logstash collects and parses logs, Elasticsearch indexes and stores the information. Kibana then presents the data in visualizations that provide actionable insights into one’s environment/software.
Ashwin is going to brief about ELK-stack and show how this popular log management platform can be used with BizTalk servers. Including installing ELK stack in Windows and demo on how BizTalk data can be logged and analyzed in ELK-Stack. And he is going to discuss about some of the uses cases you can use ELK-stack with BizTalk and Azure.
Serverless integration - Logic Apps the most comprehensive integration serviceBizTalk360
Logic Apps and its connectors provide you with the most comprehensive integration service in the cloud. You can connect to a wide range of SaaS solutions, various protocols and on premise systems. The possibilities are endless, lead times are short and deployment is serverless. This talk will demonstrate the value of Logic App capability and a real world business case.
This document appears to be the agenda for a Wildix Convention in 2016. It includes summaries of the company's performance and growth in 2015, plans for new products and marketing initiatives in 2016, and discussions of strategies around areas like cloud services, system integrators, and development practices. Key points include a 19% increase in global revenues in 2015, upcoming support for video and integration with security/automation systems, and a new development approach involving more frequent releases.
DevOps and Regulatory Compliance—Like Oil and Water or Peanut Butter and Jelly?TechWell
DevOps and regulatory compliance are two critically important ingredients in today’s connected organizations. DevOps enables you to move quickly and respond to change in an era where change is increasing at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. Regulatory compliance ensures that your organization takes the appropriate steps to follow relevant laws that appear to require adding burdensome processes and controls to your software development lifecycle. Brandon Carlson acknowledges that at first glance these two ideas seem incompatible, but they actually go together like peanut butter and jelly. While maintaining, analyzing, confirming, and reporting on the status of required information security, compliance, and privacy controls can be difficult, integrating these tasks within your DevOps/continuous delivery pipeline is easier than you think. Using examples from real-world projects in organizations just like yours, Brandon explains how to integrate compliance and reporting into your projects using tools you already know such as pair programming, Jenkins, Chef, Metasploit, and others. When it comes to compliance, it’s not oil and water. It’s peanut butter and jelly time.
Building Your own Internet of Things with the LittleBits Salesforce ConnectorSalesforce Developers
This document discusses building an Internet of Things (IoT) using LittleBits devices and connecting them to Salesforce. It begins with an overview of what the IoT is and how LittleBits devices work. It then introduces the LittleBits Connector for Salesforce, which was created to allow LittleBits devices to be controlled via the Salesforce platform using APIs. The document demonstrates several examples of using LittleBits devices and the Connector, such as tracking marketing kiosk activity and updating a sales progress tracker. It provides details on the hardware and software used. In closing, it discusses the open source LittleBits Connector software and resources for learning more.
Slides for the 60 minutes workshop I presented at the virtual edition of ClueCon 2020 (ClueCon Deconstructed). The many slides cover different aspects in Janus, ranging from configuration, to plugins, how to write your own plugin, core features, recording, monitoring, and so on. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time to talk about everything, but slides should be easy to follow anyway.
The e-commerce is one of the main points of modern software. The e-commerce sector is growing about 15% annually, which is why it deserves special attention from software engineers. Speaking of e-commerce and open source at once is not easy. For many years we have identified the concept with pain and despair, so we must work urgently to change the way we understand it should be. What are the important points to consider? Where do we find the line between architecture and pragmatism? Are we walking in the right direction? How can Symfony help in this?
Timeshift Everything, Miss Nothing - Mashup your PVR with Kamaeliakamaelian
This presentation on Kamaelia at Euro OSCON 2006, and specifically focusses
on a particular system - Kamaelia Macro which is essentially a system for
timeshifting pretty much everything.
- Betafence is a leader in the fencing industry with over 125 years of experience, €500 million in annual revenue, and operations in 12 countries.
- The previous Betafence website was difficult to manage and did not meet the needs of various user groups. The new website aims to strengthen Betafence's global online presence and better serve customers and prospects.
- Sitecore was selected as the content management system due to its flexible features for managing content in multiple languages across different regions. The new website features an improved product catalog and specification tools.
Introduction to TM1 TurboIntegrator Debugger Webinar - Quebit ConsultingQueBIT Consulting
Today’s webinar is part of a monthly advanced webinar series offered by QueBIT. Register for future webinars by accessing the events page on our website at quebit.com/news-events
AGENDA:
What is the TurboIntegrator Debugger?
Main Features/Main Window Walkthrough
How will the TI debugger help me?
Limitations
Installation and Configuration
Symfony4 is here and it is better than ever. With Flex it can be a micro framework and an amazing beast with any feature you want.
What changed from version 3, what are new best practices and why Symfony is moving PHP world forward once again you can find in this talk.
This document discusses Clean Architecture principles and provides an overview of how to structure an application according to Clean Architecture. It describes how to organize the application into layers including the Domain layer containing business logic, the Application layer containing use cases, the Infrastructure layer containing external interfaces, and the Presentation layer containing user interfaces. Code samples and demos are provided to illustrate how to implement these layers and principles in an ASP.NET Core application. Key points emphasize making each layer independent and loosely coupled to external influences.
Thinkful DC FrontEnd Crash Course - HTML & CSSTJ Stalcup
This document provides an overview of a frontend crash course on HTML and CSS. It includes details about the instructor, learning objectives, agenda, and how to continue learning after the course. The agenda covers key concepts of HTML, CSS, and how the web works. Assignments are provided to practice the skills learned. Real-world examples and troubleshooting tips are also discussed to help students learn and feel supported.
Git workflows á la-carte, Presenation at jdays2013 www.jdays.se by Nicola Pao...hamidsamadi
This document discusses Git workflows and branching models. It recommends:
1. Using feature branches off a main branch like master for continuous delivery or release branches for product releases.
2. Merging feature branches rather than rebasing to maintain a clear history. Automatic merging is preferred with placeholders to avoid unwanted merges.
3. Setting up tools and automation through hooks for code quality, branch protection and continuous integration while allowing flexibility.
4. Embracing pull requests for collaboration while keeping the main repository structure clean through occasional rebases of feature branches.
Real World Git Workflows - EclipseCon Europe 2013Nicola Paolucci
While Git is established in the Open Source world, we're only just seeing the emergence of DVCS in our daily jobs. How can DVCS enable us to collaborate in a traditional "enterprise" setting.
Atlassian has fully embraced DVCS and has started to build features into their suite of products to take advantage of this new and exciting paradigm.
The talk will dive deep into the successful git work flows used inside Atlassian. There is no size fit all for this topic and various effective processes can be devised and are in active used at our company.
The talk will also cover tools and techniques used to reduce friction during the development of features and bugfix releases like for example pre/post receive hooks and automatic merges.
Outline:
* Software Development Practices And DVCS
- Branch vs fork (single server/repo, vs forks)
- Code quality (pre-commit hook, pre-checkout hook, pre-receive, see below)
* Awesome Git Workflows Used Internally At Atlassian
- Continuous Delivery Branching model
- Product Releases Branching model
* Streamlining Your Git Process
- merge vs rebase
- Rebase as cleanup
- Meaningful merges
- hooks
. hooks in general
. Post-checkout checks
. pre-commit hooks
. Great Pre-receive and Post-receive hooks
- Automatic merges
* How does CI change when you move to git?
From Internet Explorer 6 to 11, from TYPO3 4.5 to 10.4, from 2011 to 2022 - often, projects with such a lifetime are rather relaunched than updated.
In this talk, we want to show you how we make sure our codebase works for the environment we are given and how we make sure no relaunches are needed.
Symfony4: A new way to develop applications | Antonio Peric | CODEiDCODEiD PHP Community
Antonio Peric, CEO at Locastic выступил на конференции CODEiD – PHP Odessa Conf #4 с темой «Symfony4: A new way to develop applications».
«Symfony4 is here and it is better than ever. With Flex it can be a micro framework and amazing beast with any feature you want. What changed from version 3, what are new best practices and why Symfony is moving PHP world forward once again you can find in this talk.»
CODEiD – это всеукраинское сообщество PHP-разработчиков. Наша цель — создать сильное сообщество всех, кто увлечен PHP-разработкой, и принимать в нашем уютном приморском городе коллег со всей Украины и мира.
Decouple and simplify access to Alfresco with Alfred Edge - Webinar September...XeniT Solutions nv
In this webinar you’ll learn about the benefits of effectively integrating Alfred Edge, a single point of access to Alfresco, to simplify and decouple your architecture. You’ll benefit from expert advice and strategies on improving visibility of all API access to Alfresco, enabling performance tuning and providing data quality, auditing and reliability. A live Q&A will follow the webinar where you’ll have the opportunity to ask your questions.
What you’ll also learn:
1. Centralized authentication, with Single Sign-On support for secure access controls, enabling users to access Alfresco without ever entering their credentials in the browser
2. Tracing visibility with Zipkin and diagnostic capabilities
3. Load balancing and resilience
This document provides an overview of a frontend crash course on HTML and CSS. It introduces the instructor and teaching assistants. The agenda includes learning key concepts of HTML and CSS over 90 minutes, with support provided to complete challenges. Suggestions are given to not get discouraged and take advantage of support. The document explains how the web works with requests and responses between clients and servers, and covers some basic HTML tags and CSS properties to style pages. Assignments are given for the evening, and options to continue learning frontend development are presented.
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Optimise Business Activity Tracking – Insights from Smurfit KappaBizTalk360
Watch the webinar: https://bit.ly/3iye9nb
Smurfit Kappa is one of the leading providers of paper-based packaging and displays in the world. They have operations in 30 countries. Their branch office in The Netherlands is one of the early adopters of Atomic Scope.
For this webinar, we had invited middleware specialist Rob van der horst to explain how his company is using Atomic Scope. During the session, Rob showcased how Smurfit Kappa is using the product and how they streamlined their internal processes with the help of Atomic Scope.
Key takeaways:
1. Know-how Atomic Scope is used in a real-world scenario
2. Understand how your organization can benefit from the product
3. Hear about the performance and stability improvement in v8.1
Optimise Business Activity Tracking – Insights from Smurfit KappaBizTalk360
Smurfit Kappa is one of the leading providers of paper-based packaging and displays in the world. They have operations in 30 countries. Their branch office in The Netherlands is one of the early adopters of Atomic Scope.
For this webinar, we had invited middleware specialist Rob van der horst to explain how his company is using Atomic Scope. During the session, Rob showcased how Smurfit Kappa is using the product and how they streamlined their internal processes with the help of Atomic Scope.
Key takeaways:
1. Know-how Atomic Scope is used in a real-world scenario
2. Understand how your organization can benefit from the product
3. Hear about the performance and stability improvement in v8.1
What's inside "migrating to biz talk server 2020" Book (BizTalk360 Webinar)BizTalk360
Watch the full webinar: https://bit.ly/3mMzbS7
Explore from the renowned BizTalk Server panel (Sandro Pereira, Tom Canter, and Lex Hegt) as they highlight on the challenges and solutions involved in migrating from the old BizTalk Server versions to BizTalk Server 2020.
They will also guide you through all of the migration phases—Evaluate, Plan, and Implement—and will show you how to execute your upgrade in a controlled and timely way.
Note: This webinar threw light on what the audience could expect from BizTalk360's upcoming book “Migrating to BizTalk Server 2020”
Integration Monday - Logic Apps: Development ExperiencesBizTalk360
How can I start developing Logic Apps? What are the different tools I can use? What are the advantages and drawbacks of each developer approach? What are the deployment options that I have? These are some of the questions that Sandro and Pedro have answered in this session, along with several tips that will aim to improve your Logic Apps development experience.
Integration Monday - BizTalk Migrator Deep DiveBizTalk360
Join Dan Probert as we take you on a deep dive of Microsoft’s BizTalk Migrator tool. Learn what all the moving parts do, how to modify the configuration, how to improve performance, how to create your scenarios, how to debug the tool when it runs, and how to view the model built behind the scenes. If you have questions, then this is the place to be, as we’ll also have a Q&A session towards the end. In fact, there is so much content, we probably won’t cover everything in one session!
Testing for Logic App Solutions | Integration MondayBizTalk360
In this Integration Monday session, Mike discussed the challenges and approaches for some of the common testing scenarios when delivering integration solutions with Microsoft Azure.
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System Integration using Reactive Programming | Integration MondayBizTalk360
In the current software eco-system, the applications are becoming more eventful and we can not trust enough traditional message-based integration concepts and technologies for system integration. Through this slide, Sagar will walk you through design considerations for event-based integrations and Azure Event Grid as technology backend for these integrations.
Building workflow solution with Microsoft Azure and Cloud | Integration MondayBizTalk360
This document provides an overview of workflow solutions using Microsoft Azure and cloud technologies. It discusses Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Durable Functions for automating business processes and workflows. It covers what each technology can do, pricing models, use cases, and monitoring/governance options. Key takeaways are that the technologies are not competing and to choose based on use case, and that they are mature leading options with moderate learning curves.
Serverless Minimalism: How to architect your apps to save 98% on your Azure b...BizTalk360
The document provides tips on how to save 98% on an Azure bill by using a serverless architecture and practicing serverless minimalism. It explains that serverless services scale resources reactively based on usage, resulting in close to 100% utilization and only paying for what is used. This leads to significant savings compared to conventional PaaS architectures that require pre-provisioning capacity to handle spikes, resulting in low utilization and wasted spending. The document also advocates practicing "serverless minimalism" by only using the resources needed to complete a task and writing the minimum amount of code required.
Migrating BizTalk Solutions to Azure: Mapping Messages | Integration MondayBizTalk360
This document discusses strategies for migrating BizTalk maps to Azure. It presents Integration Accounts as a way to reuse BizTalk schemas and maps, but notes they can be expensive. Other options discussed include using Logic Apps, API Management policies, and Azure Functions with custom C# or Liquid templates. However, these custom solutions are not very well supported. The document concludes there is still a need for a consistent mapping tool within Azure.
Learn how Terraform as IaC tool when applied using a DevOps mindset can help organizations build a very predictable and version-controlled target cloud infrastructure.
Get to know the two stateful programming models of Azure Serverless compute: workflows and actors and how these models can simplify development and how they enable stateful and long-running application patterns within Azure’s compute environments.
Learn how to build a sophisticated and user-configurable Slack Bot which gives customized trade reports to financial analysts using Serverless technologies on Azure. Learn the patterns we used and the architectural decisions we made from an experienced Serverless Enterprise developer and author.
The document provides a link to slides for an upcoming presentation or session located at https://robrich.org/presentations/. The slides can be accessed at this web address and contain information relevant to the session being referenced. In 3 sentences or less.
The Power Platform in Office 365 (Power BI, Power Apps, Flow, Forms, Sharepoint Online,...) is probably the best ecosystem in the world for a complete digital transformation in your company and maybe you are already paying for them without any usage.
We are living a complete digital transformation where people are not restricted by apps or devices or even location. Work can be done anywhere and on any device which leads to greater security concerns regarding this business data living on mobile devices and shared with external (sometimes not trusted users). Microsoft Unified Labeling protection leverages the power of the cloud and ease of use (a few clicks for implementation) to provide a complete Information Protection solution. Now with the new unified Azure label client, users can administer the labels from one location while being integrated across the whole Microsoft platform. Attendees will learn how to configure Unified labels with real case scenarios.
Network security is back! Whether you are using Azure Kubernetes Services, IaaS virtual machines, App Services, or any other PaaS feature, securing your application or data is critical to the business. Azure security is constantly evolving and how we did things even one year ago isn't necessarily the best way anymore. Learn about Azure network security, design patterns, learn what is new, and even to see some things that are coming soon.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
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In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
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What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
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The fall of the BizTalk Architect – From something abstract to something useful
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The fall of the BizTalk Architect
From something abstract to something useful
May 25th 2015 Mikael Sand
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Who am I?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• Mikael Sand
• Live just south of Stockholm, Sweden
• 40(!)
• Senior integration architect and
Azure Associate Enfo Zystems
@mikaelsandmikaelsand.se
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What is important in an integration?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
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What is important in an integration?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• It looks good
• It solves a problem
• It connects two or more systems
• It works
• It is reusable
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That gives us something
to think about
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
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Perspectives
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
Our usual world view
BizTalk
Salaries
Invoicing
That system
This system
www
Intranet
Shipping
partner
Other
partner
BizTalk
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Are we even the center
of integration?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
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Who are involved?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
PMCustomer
rep
Operations
owner
Enterprice
architect
System owner
Application
operations
System owner
More PMs
Technical
operations
The BizTalk
Architect
Developer
Developer End user
Tester
Security
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Perhaps we are not the center of
everything
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
wwwIntranet
CRM Sales
Customer service
application
Business critical
Application
Printing Business data
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
www
Intranet CRM
Sales
Customer service
application
Business critical
Application
Printing
Business data
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Structure, architecture and
the right mindset
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
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What do you get?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• Quick answers to
complex problems
• Processes ->
• Predictability
• Measurability ->
• Feedback
• Again: Quick answers
• Processes ->
• Predictability
• Just a little more
concrete
Predictability Business centric
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Time for a definition
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
What is an integration?
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Presentationname
Roughly the same information is moved from
roughly the same system to roughly another system
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
Information type: Beverages
System
A
System
B
Beers
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
Information type: Beverages
System
A
System
B
Beers
Wine
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
Information type: Beverages
System
A
System
B
Beers
Wine
System
C
Beers
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ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
Information type: Beverages
System
A
System
B
Beers
Wine
System
C
Beers
System
D
Empty bottles
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What is the atomic integration?
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• The integration has to contain all it’s parts and have as
few external references as possible.
• The integration will contain everything to be buildable
and deployable.
• But: ”Don’t be stupid!”
• Duplicate the artifacts and code reusability with copy-
paste
• But: ”Don’t be stupid”
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The atomic integration gives you
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• 1 integration
• 1 Visual Studio Solution
• 1 Application in BizTalk
• 1 msi for deployment
• or PS-script, or whatever.
• 1 set of documents
• 1 common name for the integration (business-IT)
• 1 entry in a repository
• A very simple solution to a very complex problem
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The atomic integration gives you
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• Easier follow-up
• A better fit with Sprints (the Agile method)
• A better fit with ITIL since you get a 1 to 1 relationship
• Easier add-on development
• Easier development over all
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The downsides
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• May cause large solutions, hard to cooperate within a
team.
• Double the info! Then again, gives a nice feeling of
control and isolation.
• ESB: Not a perfect fit, might become harder to do.
Then again, was ESB ever easy?
• A bit boring
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The structure in BizTalk
ThefalloftheBizTalkArchitect
• Integration name: Number + friendly name.
• Artefacts: Separated by type name using subfolders
within a project or
• One per type, per system.
• Orchestrations: Use hard bound ports as standard
and make them shared.
• Copy-paste for pipeline components and helper code.
• But: ”Don’t be stupid”.
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Mikaelism #6
Presentationname
Make sure the right error information is sent
to the right people in a way the person can
understand
Short preface:
I am, and have always being worlking as a consultant. Therefore I will use the term, client or customer. If you don’t have a client or customer just exchange these words for Clive or Susan or whoever orders new integration stuff from your.
I will also make an effort to present everything in black and white and simply say ”everyone” or ”all” where there is some room for discussion. I might also sound very cynical. I do not do this becaus I don’t know, but for dramatic effect and it is simply easier. I say this now once and for all so you can fill in this diclamer everytime you hear something that might need a bit more nuance. That way we all save time.
That might be a bit too overwhelming to answer. Rather >klick<
I would like to ask you but I have decided to not look at the chat window.
These are five things that is important.
Out of these five? Which one is the most important.
It is doing what it is supposed to be doing.
The important thing is not that it is cool looking or a nice technical solution.
This is our world. Systems are sending their data. They are depending on us.
I want you to look at something.
We always place ourselves in the center. HEY! It i seven called middleware.
We se ourselves as the center.
As a matter of fact, we might even see ourselves as…
This might even not be far for the truth.
Hoooooooweveeeer.
>klick<
Talk about Mikaelisms
If you are not working with biztalk to print money, you are an expense.
You are not making money for a client or an employer. Your reason for being there is to lower expenses. >klick<
If you havn’t realized this and also have that BIG BizTalk ego >klick<
This is an example of a small business meeting. The sums might not be internationally viable. If so just view them as numbers.
This is a real and not at all unusual business meeting I attended.
So perhaps you might not need to motivate your very existence.
But you are HAPPY if you have people abouve and around you that know exactly how important you are.
You might even have trouble getting love for other colleagues within IT.
So #2
This might seem very egomaniacal but think about it. You have special skills, or powers. You know this. You can do this because you did it before.
However I have often met other “integrators” that said they know this but when asked EXACTLY what is sent over the wire, because the soap header seems to off somehow, the respond. “we have no idea because we use a tool to generate java classes…” So you might be better but you need to >klick< Help them understand.
Noone has ever been motivated be being steped on. HELP not TELL people.
A technical solution might be clear and obvious to you but that in itself might not be a good reason for the person holding the money.
So even people within our business and even the same field have a hard time understanding us >klick<
You might even ask >klick<
I would like to pose this question. Are we really. Let’s see shall we?
So you have your basic receive file, transform it and send it somewhere else.
Who are involved?
Well the BizTalk architect ofcourse.
Everyone of these people have their own demands, wishes, wants and everyday worklife and when the integration is DONE it is THEIR reality that dictates what is ok and what is not.
EVERYONE of these people have ONE thing in common. ONE wish. ONE demand. >klick<
There are some exceptions of course that I might just point out in order to avoid a riot.
Security people does not want it to work. They want it to be secure. Not the same thing always.
The EA wants the integration platform to be a box so that it fits the EA diagrams but other then that people want it to work.
The user of you r integration could not care less if you used a deplyment framework and the project manager is utterly unintrested in that is a ”very cool ESB solution”.
So just to hammer it home.
Perhaps we might start to realize that we are not the center of the known universe.
We cost money and we are only a small part of an integration project.
How does a company or organization view the integration platform?
Here is an almost real customer systems landscape map. They have an integration platform.
The question is, can you find it?
If you are lucky, you might even be given an integration map.
This one is not far from the actual customer truth.
Missing from this is that they had actually put is the different kinds of that that was transported.
STILL there is no integration platform.
Let’s make up some statistics.
In about 90% of all cases, the client, user, the person who ordered the job, could not care less about what kind of framework you are using, naming conventions or anything like that. Ok, you might be allowed to give them one hour lesson on loosely coupled integrations but that is it! Then when you need to do something that cost money; motivate it,
The users really are the number 1 representatives for this. They are almost always interested in one single thing: That it works.
Only after it works, then you can start to focus on add-ons like BAM, monitoring and automatic error handling.
If the files uses one or two integrations, who cares?!
We are very funky and dynamic. Adaptive even compared to other platforms.
We can do a lot of specialized and funny stuff and use a lot of protocols.
This brings that we are often used as the ones going “you decide” when a customer want to connect systems and what to know how. That is usually just frustrating.
Remember the Mikaelism “Do not think that other people are as good at this as you are”
If a company wants to make a new integration >klick<
Webb is sending something to the backend system and the backend system is sending to the printing firm, this is the way the draw it.
Solid, well defined blocks and also well defined processes on how to do different things within the system. Not even we view this as something strange.
Well they realize that they need BizTalk to do the integration stuff. >klick< So they draw another box.
But if we act like >klick< we are not exactly going to be the flavor of the month.
We are perceived like this every time we do not have answers to difficult questions, quickly.
Connectors. We here might think about these as Api Apps but they are connectors and they are not a new thing.
Customers might be looking for a service to be able to “connect to some governmental agency” or “large corporation”. We (the BizTalk developers and architects) see this as quite an alien concept as we are so close to the wire, or the protocol. Were other platforms might say “yeah, we have a connector for that” we have to go “how do you want to connect”.
So another question.
That’s right. The preparations. The stage well before any development take place. We are quite good at developing integrations by now. The time from spec to tested code is short. The big part is NOT development and configuration but rather the preparations.
If we do not facilitate preparations but rather go “well you have to decide” we are problem bringers, rather then problem solvers.
Always present a solution together with a problem. Bosses LOVE that.
So, we are expenses. We are rather small in the big scheme of things. We are invisible and many view us as an unnecessary step in an integration. We flail about and we speak a language others do not understand.
What is the LEAST we can do?
YES! Say it with me now!!!>klick<
This is the turning point. After tearing you down I will now rebuild you.
Its here and now I will present the best BizTalk architecture you can get. The one that covers the most ground with the least effort.
It might not be a perfect fit, especially if you already have a framework in place, but then again you have not agreed with the problems I have presented so far. But in my view, this is the best possible solution if you have a bit of chaos or looking for your way of doing things.
This is the solution! It is not magic or the latest and greatest tech from your fav company.
It is as simple as that.
A predefined way of working and an, open, more customer centric way of thinking about a problem. Be part of the business, not the odd one out.
So what do you get?
Quick answers. Integration is complex but by using structure you can have predefined answers to questions that might be very complex within an enterprise, like ”what kind of way can we connect to an external partner?”
Structure means processes and processes gives you predictability. The answer to ”why do we have processes” is not ”because it tells people what to do”. The answer is that it gives you predictability. If I send an email to my IT-support, they will pick it up, create a ticket and come back to me.
It also gives you the ability to ”measure” your workload. How long do we think this will take and how long did it take.
On the business side
Again quick answers,
Processes that leads to predictability. You define the processes and make your clients jump thru hoops.
Lastly: We are very abstract in what we do. Not a lot of people understand why we do the thinks we do and what they get in the end. ”A way of working” just make it a little more concrete.
You might ask yourself: This is nothing new. No one disagrees with this, well then again why do so few work like this? And also I am just getting started.
There are more definitions of this then the world can handle, but I think this is the best one.
Before we move to these slides I thought I’d explain.
We always use the same kind of ”boring” financial data or Purchase order and it might be a bit hard to understand some points if you are new to BizTalk or accounting.
So I thought I would use something that everyone can relate to Alcoholic beverages!
So the information type is beverages.
This is definitely an integration. System A is sending Beers data to System B
Once again not the lack of a BizTalk box.
One more thing: The arrow “beers” is not an integration. It is a “flow” or a “flow of information”. The whole thing is an integration. The arrow is a flow.
This is the same integration. Same systems just another type of data.
This is still the same integration as we are still sending the same data to roughly the same system
This is where it starts to get tricky. It may depend of how the client ordered the integration and how they see the future of System D.
Use your head: Is it a good idea to keep these flows connected in one integration? How is the last flow related to the information type? Note that once again: The client does not care if it is two integrations or one.
Why do I define an integration like this?
Because that is how people see it! The people that ordered the integration and are paying for it.
An integration is not system A0002 is connecting to service SRV000023 using contract C00002.
If you start saying that people will fall asleep or get mad at you for not providing the solution but rather giving them a new problem: Trying to understand what the hell they ordered.
Try instead to have some humble pie, relax and ask them:
What do you need? We want to send invoices to clients. Deliver the batch file to my CRM system.
An integration and what people order are not the same but they tend to be just that. If that is how they see it, then perhaps you can see it the same way.
This is perhaps the place for a BizTalk architect: how do we split or merge what the client ordered into integrations and how does this new stuff fit with the old?
This is the big reveal. This is when I tell you how to solve 90% of all your BizTalk architectural problems.
And I am not even close to kidding.
Yes! The atomic integration.
Atomic in this case does not mean “indivisible” and the atom is splittable as we know.
Here it means contained or isolated. More like the atomic in the BizTalk transaction scope sense.
1. This also means that you clean up after yourself. This means duplication of schemas and other artefacts if needed yes.
2. This means you get to wave bye-bye to “shared” and large dll-libraries: However >klick<
3. Do not take this and run into the wall. (Large schemas that will never change and will be used throughout the integration platform like MS CRM, then place it in shared. Because not reusing the same schema over and over would be stupid. So don’t be stupid.
4. Simply talk about code reuse with copy paste and duplication
5. Once again: Don’t be stupid. This might be the most important thing. Be an adult about things. ALL architectural ideas can be abused as well as used. Just be an adult.
4. You can use a simple MSI. You do now need to develop a heap load of custom scripting do make your deploy work.
8. Lastly. I have seen a lot of solutions to the problems around BizTalk architecture and some of them are really good and useful they do however always contain some kind of technical caveat and codebase that needs to be maintained in order for it to work. This solution does not need that. It is ready to go out of the box.
A well contained integration is also a well contained definition and work load. So it is easier to follow up on.
The well contained and well defined integration is also a better fit for the agile sprint method.
A VERY good fit for the ITIL method of Incident, Problem, task and so on as it gives you a 1 to 1 relationship between your integration and ITIL artefacts.
If you have well defined integrations, independent of each other you can develop them as such as well. A single developer can take responsibility for a whole integrations, which gives you better quality code.
There are of course downsides to this. Nothing is perfect, not even I.
A large integration with a lot of different systems may cause large solutions and that makes it hard for different developers to cooperate as they all have to work within the same solution.
Double the info, yes this infers a bit of overhead as for example all the ports using the xml disassembler need to point to the assembly to resolve schemas.
If you are thing ESB if might not be a perfect fit a. You could set up your integrations as service points and endpoints but it is harder to do. Then again, was ESB ever easy to do?
It is a bit boring. Framed, well defined solution basically already done when you get the dev spec.
The name of the integration is very important as this is the common name for if thru every meeting with clients and users.
Artefacts might be separated using folders and the integration is essentially one project file. The different folders create different .net types and makes it easy to sort the names in lists. Personally not a total fan of this method as it creates monolithic dll:s (assemblies) that contains all the information. But HEY It Works and you know what I say about that.Another way is to have separate projects per artefact and system. So SystemA.Schemas, SystemB.Schemas, SystamB.Pipelines and so on.This is a bit more granular then the approach above. And make is possible to deploy part of an application should you need to patch a transformation for instance.
It is important to point out that Shared in this instance means shared within the integration. Orch are special as they usually don’t “belong to a certain system”. They belong to BizTalk and should be named after what they do.
DO NOT share component or helper code. I am not kidding. Use copy paste instead. Look at your component library as you do code you just binged… found on the internet. You copy that and make it your own. Then again. You might find cases were this is stupid, then don’t be stupid.
Some stupidities:
Using components to push code to all integrations using that particular component bacuase they wasn’t tested enough.
Duplicating large schema sets where you only use a subset of them.
Non expandable or versioned standard messages (one message to rule them all).
One pipeline to rule them all. Either a send or receive pipeline that was configured to on the fly load components EVERY time a message passed thru.
Gigantic solutions, I have been a victim and a creator of this. What should have been 6 integrations was put in one solution.
Special settings and configurations. I am a fan of using standard settings as much as possible. Don’t get me started on XSLT.
Time to get concrete.
This is what needs to be done.
This is what we got. I know it is in Swedish but I will translate.
This was the result of a meeting between two persons in a large company. They met over lunch as want’s this done.
You can see that they want to transfer Orders to the business data system and then they will send something to Printing.
Depending on your organization this might even be the actual order. Make this happen. I call this the “Integration initiative” or “napkin drawing”.
After some research we arrive at this visio drawing.
The website should send orders for new cards to the backend system. The backend system will send a batch file to printing once a day to order new cards.
We view this as one integration, that it is new and give it the name >klick< INT0001.CardTransactions
We see a future were the web site wants to send other types of card transactions more than NEW and give it a bit ”looser” name then ”OrderNewCards”.
After some more thinking we arrive at this.
Walk thru the solution.
Also note that this is about the time were we loose the interest of the client. This is just for us.
Who are the stakeholders
The website, everything web at this company is, as always, handled by young people who were Trillbys and scarfs inside in the middle of summer.
The salesforce, Thinks the cards will sell themselves and automatically. He seems to have missed the fact that he has not turned on his computer.
Backend: The business critical system. Unix based. Solid and probably some oracle databases in there for good measure.
Printing. In order to lower their costs they have strict processes and formats. One fail means a whole batch fails.
And somewhere there is also an IT-pro, the guys and gals that will take the blame for your mistakes for years to come. Note the ever present fleece.
Lets take a look at this.
This is important. Just make sure of it. Don’t think: How will I make this work, think what happens when it fails?
Moving on up
As you all know this is the new thing and it will change the world. Again.
Using API apps and Logical Apps we can connect all these capabilities without ever having to think about how.
So let us create a new app using >klick< >klick<
Now imagine how you keep all these services and API calls together. Yes! That is correct! You can use the Atomic model here to. Since you are basically doing the same thing here as you are in BizTalk. You need to keep things in order because as you all know. Democratizing integration as Microsoft puts it makes the next developer of integrations >klick< This guy!
This guy!
We are not the masters of the universe.
We are small compared to the rest of the enterprise.
We are a service and should function as such.
We have customers and they should be treated as such.
We are perceived as too complex and granular.
We have too many wants and needs.
There is a way out of this.