It is that time of year where I like to reflect back on what the previous year has brought and also set my bearings for the road ahead. If you are interested in reading my 2015 recap, you can find it here. Personal 2016 was a milestone birthdate for myself and my twin brother. In order to celebrate, and try to deny getting old for … Continue reading 2016 Year in Review, Looking Ahead to 2017
With everything now confirmed, I am happy to report that I will be speaking at Microsoft’s largest conference, Ignite, in September in Atlanta, Georgia. I will be sharing the stage with John Taubensee from the Azure Service Bus team. We will be talking about some real world messaging scenarios. Service Bus and Event Hubs are important pillars in our Integration strategy at TransAlta so I … Continue reading Speaking at Microsoft Ignite
BizTalk360 has recently released more details on their annual conference in London. This year there is a name change. Instead of the BizTalk Summit, the name gets altered to align with the “Integrate” brand. In case you were not aware, BizTalk360 organized the last Integrate Summit in Redmond back in December 2014 so it makes sense to carry that name forward. BizTalk360 has been working … Continue reading Speaking at Integrate 2016
I have been learning Stream Analytics recently and ran across an issue that I couldn’t find any good examples of how to solve the problem so I figured I would post my solution. I fully expect to expand on this scenario in coming months, but for now will keep the scenario light. What I am doing is getting device reads off of an Azure Event … Continue reading Azure Stream Analytics–Querying JSON Arrays
Middleware In The Cloud 