The lay of the land I had an interesting set of requirements and constraints from one organization. They had on-premises legacy systems with business critical services that included sensitive data. In an effort to keep up with the fierce competition in the organization’s industry, the customer was eager to leverage certain Azure Platform as a

In this post, I am going to talk about my experience in Microsoft Ignite – The Tour event that was held in Amsterdam in March 2019. I will highlight some of the interesting Azure features and services that I learned about. Exciting First day Microsoft Ignite is a 2-day event, it was held in RAI

Integrating distributed systems is an extremely challenging task, as system integrators, we aspire to build robust integration solutions that can withstand and gracefully serve the business realistic workloads with a suitable level of performance. At the start of any integration project, we gather requirements and learn about the lay of the land, that is the

In the first part, I started with BizTalk BAM, and Atomic Scope primers. I went through some of Atomic Scope cool features, such as the enhanced search experience, archived data control, tracked messages encryption, and user access policy. In this second and final part, I will continue exploring some of the other exciting features in

I was really excited when BizTalk360 announced Atomic Scope product, In October 2017, at Integrate USA Event, as their solution for business activity monitoring (BAM) for integration solutions. Now, a little over a year has passed since the announcement. I decided to explore the third version of Atomic Scope which has matured with a lot of

I previously explored Sentinet 5, and demonstrated how you can easily wrap an on-premises unsecured SOAP/HTTP service into a virtual REST/HTTPs API with JSON message format and basic authentication security scheme. I also added a custom access control feature that governed the throughput of virtual service incoming requests to a maximum of (2) requests per

I recently passed the exam 70-535: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions. I am posting this blog to provide guidance on how to prepare for this exam, as well as answer some of most common questions I got. You can find all the detailed information for Exam 70-535 from Microsoft site here. It is worth mentioning that this exam

So now you have deployed your BizTalk solution, you followed development & deployment best practices and guidelines, but there is one more caveat that is lurking in the shadows, that is, BizTalk Throttling. It is a double-edged sword, on one hand BizTalk Server uses host-level throttling as an internal safeguard mechanism against unexpected loads based

Nevatech has just launched the latest version of its API Management and API Governance software platform, Sentinet 5. Sentinet 5 comes with some new features, but the major change is the new User Interface for its management console, the previous versions relied on Silverlight, and had a bit of an antiquated look & feel, nevertheless,

BizTalk server is a robust Integration platform, it is a beast when it comes to message transformations, and translations, business process automation, and most importantly communication protocol mediation using the set of its built-in adapters, and we get all of these capabilities without writing a single line of code. However, this last statement is not