Category Archives: BizTalk

BizTalk Subscription Architecture: EPM and Message Agents

Endpoint Manager and Message Agent

As BizTalk developers know, receive, business processing, and sending messages, occur in the process space of a Host Instance.

In this post, I’m interested in the receive and send processing:

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BizTalk 2013 Streaming Support

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Introduction

Stream processing saves programs from having to load data entirely into memory.

Instead, a program gets a hold on a stream instead of the actual data. The program then starts asking the stream to send a chunk of the data. The program does the required processing on this chunk, and then asks for another chunk…this goes on until the entire stream is read and processed.

This has the very important advantage of not having to load the entire message at once into the program’s memory space. By reading data in chunk, only the size of the chunk that is being processes is loaded into memory.

In systems under load and where scalability is a concern, this can have a huge influence on the success these systems.

This post, explains how stream processing is implemented in BizTalk Server, and how to take advantage of streaming to build better BizTalk applications.

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Hybridizing BizTalk Projects with Azure BizTalk Services – Part1

Azure BizTalk Services

Windows Azure BizTalk Services provides integration capabilities for the Windows Azure Platform, to extend on-premises applications to the cloud.

It provides common integration capabilities such as bridges, transforms, and B2B messaging on windows azure.

So this means, that now we can build our business process using a hybrid model, where part of this process continues to be running on the on-premise BizTalk Server, while the other part can be running on Azure.

Of course – at least at this stage – do not think of BizTalk Services as BizTalk Server on the cloud.

While BizTalk Services provide certain integration services, its still in its early stages. BizTalk Server on the other hand is a complete integration platform.

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BizTalk Server 2013 from Ground Up: An End to End Scenario

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This course is a fit for you whether you are new to BizTalk Server, or whether you are looking to know more about its architecture and applicable techniques. It’s a ground-up course that first covers the architecture, and presents the techniques in the context of business scenario driven from a real-life project.

The course is logically divided into two parts. The first part covers the architecture of BizTalk Server 2013. This information is essential in order to deploy a successful application that does not break under load. The Messaging and Business Process Engines are explained in detail, with a strong emphasis on best practices and an eye on performance. The second part explains the most essential techniques that you will come across in your projects. However, to better understand how these techniques can be used in your real projects, they are explained in the context of a Payment Gateway scenario driven from a real project. By the end of the course, you will not only be equipped by the essential architectural knowledge, but also with a sense of knowledge of how BizTalk is used in real life.

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/Description/biztalk-server2013-end-to-end