AppFabric Service Bus Queues and Topics presentation (for Boston Azure User Group)

Recently we’ve delivered a presentation to the Boston Azure User Group on how perfectly the cloud technologies are aligned for development for the Mobile Apps and clients. My coworkers from Blue Metal Architects delivered great content about integrating iOS (featured iPhone and iPad) and Windows Phone with the cloud. I’ve covered the use of the AppFabric Service Bus Queues and Topics – these technologies are perfect for communications for partially connected clients (like mobile ones).

Messaging Platform and Service Bus Resources

On the recent project we’ve put in place a messaging platform. Apparently my engineers had a vague understanding what that is. To save you the same trouble I’ve gathered a bunch of interesting resources that can help you get up to date:

Open source Service Bus implementations

• nServiceBux (NSB)
• MassTransit (MT)
• Rhino Service Bus

nServiceBus

• Udi Dahan and NServiceBus (Podcast)

MassTransit

• A First Look at MassTransit
• Producing and Consuming Messages using MassTransit and StructureMap
• MassTransit Endpoints
• MassTransit Samples (Ayende)
• Performance Counters Added to MassTransit

WCF (misc)

• A Developer’s Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
• WCF Templates and Tools