Service Bus

This is a looooooong (112 minutes, feature film length, bring popcorn) comprehensive feature and pattern overview talk specifically about the Windows Azure Service Bus and Service Bus for Windows Server brokered messaging capabilities. Since 1h 52m may be a tad bit long to watch…

Today I'm sharing an ad-hoc, single-take whiteboard discussion on "push" and "pull" communication patterns. There's a lot of talk in the industry on push (see push notifications) and pulling/polling (long polling vs. web sockets and messaging), so I'm dissecting…

Welcome to my new video blog here on Channel 9!

With this post (entry? segment?) I'm going to start a series of screen casts for folks who are new to Service Bus or haven't yet had the time to use any or some of it features. In this first post I'll take you on a 15 minute tour through the new portal sections for Service Bus.  If you're a…

In this 3rd episode of the "Getting Started with Service Bus" series, and for a while the last one that doesn't focus on the developer API, I'm looking at Paolo Salvatori's Service Bus Explorer. Paolo works as one of our experts in the globally distributed Windows Azure…

This penultimate episode of the "Getting Started with Service Bus" series introduces how to create Topics and Subscriptions, and how to use them, in the simplest way, with the Service Bus API. 

On the way driving from my hotel to work this morning, I swung by 343 Industries' super-secret hidden space command facility to meet Angus, Caitie, and Hoop from Section 3, the team that creates the services backbone for the Halo game series including Halo Waypoint. We talk about how…

This is the final part of the six-part series "Getting Started with Service Bus" and this time I'm covering how to build a Service Bus Relay-relayed NAT and Firewall traversing service for both RPC-style interactions and plain HTTP.  

This whiteboard talk was largely inspired by a series of Twitter conversations around whether and when it's a good idea to share types (i.e. .NET classes compiled into assemblies) as a way to express contracts in a messaging system. I don't think it is. In fact, it's the exact opposite of loose…

At the Build 2011 conference I teased a prototype at the very end of my talk. That prototype was called Iguazu and was an attempt at creating a push notification abstraction for Windows, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android that tackles the architecturally hardest challenges for developers…