BizTalk Services: Christian shuttling back and forth on the bus
Christian Weyer shows off the few lines of pretty straightforward WCF code & config he needed to figure out in order to set up a duplex conversation through BizTalk Services.
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Stephen Forte on what BizTalk Services means for his shop
Steve has a great analysis of what BizTalk Services means for Corzen and how he views it in the broader industry context.
Internet Service Bus
"ESB" (for "Enterprise Service Bus") is an acronym floating around in the SOA/BPM space for quite a while now. The notion is that you have a set of shared services in an enterprise that act as a shared foundation for discovering, connecting and federating services. That's a good thing and there's not much of a debate about the usefulness, except whether <FONT color=#0000ff>ESB</FONT> is the actual term is being used to describe this service...
Code of Conduct?
Tim O'Reilly's "code of conduct" is a "we need more laws" overreaction to the fact that real world making its way into blogland. Yes, as much as there may be a sense in some people that there's a "we" amongst bloggers and "we" need to stay together or some folks still think that bloggers are some kind of an elite: "Blogger" is a mainstream occupation and hobby now. That means: you'll find that some...
So how much faster is it really and is it? WCF performance in comparison.
We just published a great whitepaper written by our WCF/WF Performance PM Saurabh Gupta on the relative performance of WCF compared to ASMX, WSE, Enterprise Services, and Remoting. This is material for your favorites folder. The summary says:
To summarize the results, WCF is 25%—50% faster than ASP.NET Web Services, and approximately 25% faster than .NET Remoting. Comparison with .NET Enterprise Service is load dependant, as in one case WCF...