Alan Smith

Alan has been following the development of Windows Azure AppFabric since it was introduced as a community technology preview project under the name of BizTalk Services in 2007. He is a member of the Microsoft Application Server Group advisor team and provides feedback to the development teams on emerging AppFabric technologies.

Alan is one of the lead contributors to the Azure development community. In 2009 he launched “CloudCasts.net” a webcast community site hosted in Windows Azure. In October 2011 he published the first edition of “The Developer’s Guide to AppFabric”, a free e-book that will evolve over time to cover all the Windows Azure Service Bus technologies as they are introduced into production.

He is a regular presenter at conferences and user groups, and co-runs the Sweden Windows Azure Group (SWAG). He has held the Microsoft MVP award for eight years.

Session

Azure Service Bus – Middleware in the Cloud
Windows Azure Service Bus provides a range of middleware services hosted in Microsoft data centers located around the world. Launched in 2010 the services are evolving rapidly to provide enterprise-class capabilities that can be leveraged from on-premise and cloud-based applications.

The Azure Service Bus enables secure network traversal and communication between on-premise and cloud-based applications using synchronous relayed and asynchronous, durable brokered messaging. The Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) services, currently in community technology preview (CTP), allow organizations to integrate with line-of-business systems and trading partners.

This demo intensive session will show how the capabilities of Windows Azure Service Bus can be leveraged from on-premise and cloud-based applications to create scalable, reliable and cost effective solutions.