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• Creating a RESTful API with PHP
• RESTful Services: The key to cloud computing
• Spring MVC and the HATEOAS constraint
• The Dark Matter That Make APIs Work
• Designing a RESTful API with Python and Flask
• Spring adds HATEOAS Support to REST Based Web Services
• XML PATCH
• Event Models for RESTful APIs

Architecture

• Cloud-Friendly BPM: The Power of Hypermedia-Oriented Architecture

Cloud

• Windows Azure SDK 2.0 Adds New PowerShell cmdlets with Enhancements for Storage and Service Bus

Distributed Systems

• ZooKeeper and the Distributed Operating System

EAI

• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure BizTalk Server 2013 (Part 9)
• Duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.bts_LogShippingJobs’
• 7 Things You Didn’t Know About DataMapper
• MBV 13 is now available and fully compatible with BizTalk 2013
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Network Configuration protocols (Part 10)
• Another cause of Internal Error 2761 – BizTalk 2013
• Retreive any complex data XML structure type from SQL using BizTalk WCF SQL Adapter
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Validate Mail account used by BizTalk to send BAM Alerts (Part 11)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Installing BizTalk Adapter Pack (Part 12)
• BizTalk prerequisite files list (summary) [Updated]
• Mule ESB with the Oracle Database and IBM WebSphere MQ – Use case 1 of 3
• Summarizing event log data from BizTalk 360
• Message Box Viewer 13 included in BizTalk Server 2013
• 3 BizTalk Servers, 2 Datacenters, 1 On-prem
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure Microsoft UDDI Services (Part 13)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and Configure the Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit (Part 14)

Integration

• Elastic Integration Will Deliver the Boundless Business

Messaging

• Can we implement Inheritance in WCF ServiceContract : WCF Interview Series #2 *
• ActiveMQ-CPP v3.7.0 Released
• Release: RabbitMQ 3.1.1
• A first look at SignalR
• Announcing the release of AMQP support with Windows Azure Service Bus

Workflow

• New Workflow Manager 1.0 Getting Started Tutorial *

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

• Which kind of API service provider are you?
• Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs
• Distributed Affordance: Creating personalized links through semantics and Web APIs
• Error handling considerations and best practices

Architecture

• Distributed Consensus: Paxos by Example
• Concurrency in a long polling comet server
• Integration between Resource and Message Based Architectures
• Distributed Affordance
• Eventual consistency in REST APIs

Data Formats

• WCF Data Services 5.5.0 Prerelease

EAI

• Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Administration Essentials Chapter 5 – Problem determination, event sources and files
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install and configure SMTP Server Feature (Part 4)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (Part 5)
• How to fix the error “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.” when using the BRI resolver in the ESB Toolkit and BizTalk 2013
• BizTalk 2013: WCF-SAP Adapter using Messaging Servers
• Use SAP data BBSEG structure in BizTalk Server
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Visual Studio 2012 (Part 6)
• Tracing with ESB Toolkit 2.2
• BTS2013 features explained: Dependency tracking
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install SQL Server 2012 (Part 7)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Configure SQL Server Database Mail feature (Part 8)

Events

• Reactor – a foundation for asynchronous applications on the JVM

Messaging

• Using Camel to do light weight messaging over any protocol
• Method Overloading in WCF: WCF Interview Series #1
• Akka 2.1.4 Released
• Saga patterns: wrap up
• ZeroMQ for distributed computing

• REST lesson learned: Consider a home link on all resources
• Road to REST
• Startups Need To Work Together on API Definitions
• The future is now – OWIN and multi-hosting ASP.NET web applications
• Idempotent Web APIs: What benefit do I get?
• Resteasy 3.0-beta-5 Released
• Consuming REST with PHP and Streams
• The ‘profile’ Link Relation and You
• So I wrote a JSON API Framework and the Framework was the Least Interesting Part
• NancyFX – Revisiting Content Negotiation & APIs (Part 2) *
• Home Documents for HTTP APIs (Updated)

Architecture

• Fallacies of massively distributed computing
• There’s Just No Getting around It: You’re Building a Distributed System
• Distributed Locking: When to use it? How?
• Ditching two-phased commits

CEP

• Darach Ennis on CEP, Stream Processing, Messaging, OOP vs Functional Architecture

Cloud

• Creating a “Flat File” Shared Database with Amazon S3 and Node.js

Data Formats

• JSON API

EAI

• When to use Apache Camel?
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Important considerations before set up the server (Part 1)
• Execute a BizTalk 2013 map with multiple input messages from .NET
• BizTalk 2013 Map Unit Testing Gotcha
• One-Touch BizTalk Configuration in Windows Azure Virtual Machine
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Enable Internet Information Services (Part 2)
• BizTalk 2013 Installation and Configuration – Install Windows Identity Foundation (Part 3)
• BizTalk Administration Story Complete

Messaging

• Python Multiprocessing with ZeroMQ

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

• ASP.NET Web API and greedy query string parameter binding
• Lifecycle of an ASP.NET Web API Message *
• Spring Hateoas
• Generic Hypermedia and Domain-Specific APIs: RESTing in the ALPS
• Building APIs by building on APIs
• HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design – video and slides
• Stop Designing Fragile Web APIs
• Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That: API Versioning
• Unirest
• Falcon **
• REST lesson learned: Avoid 204 responses
• Introducing Sockii: HTTP and WebSocket aggregator
• Making APIs Attractive to Developers
• REST lesson learned: Avoid hackable URLs
• Calling Salesforce.com REST and SOAP Endpoints from .NET Code

Architecture

• Queries, Patterns, and Search – food for thought
• What Is Idempotent in REST?
• Fallacies of massively distributed computing
• REST lessons learned
• IT is a fashion industry
• Micro Service Architecture
• Events bring Simplicity to a System’s Architecture

Cloud

• SaaS vendors and Corporate IT, a new detente?
• What’s new in the Service Bus .NET SDK 2.0

EAI

• Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Administration Essentials Chapter 5 – Problem determination, event sources and files
• BizTalk 2013 : Default Tracking Settings Have Changed
• Reminder to self – MSBUILD doesnt shutdown straightaway
• Using HttpHeaders with WCF-WebHttp Adapter on Biztalk 2013
• BizTalk – Frequently Asked Questions by DBAs

Messaging

• Integration in the cloude with Camel, Karaf and Cellar
• ZeroMQ an introduction
• Saga alternatives – routing slips
• Apache Camel 2.11 released
• Messages, data and types
• Release: RabbitMQ 3.1.0

Security

• A WebAPI Basic Authentication MessageHandler
• Preventing passive federation for Web Api under a MVC4 website

Semantic Web

• Introducing the BBC’s Linked Data Platform and APIs

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Mornined Dew.

** Courtesy of API Digest.

• Hypermedia APIs and JavaScript Applications
• Testing WebAPI with Fiddler *
• Implementing RESTFul Services with Node.js and MongoDB
• How to use RestTemplate with Basic Authentication in Spring
• Codemania 2013: Glenn Block on Hypermedia
• Keep your CRUD off the Internet
• Designing APIs for Humans

Architecture

• Developing a SOA-based Integration Layer Framework: Features
• The single eye of enterprise architecture

Cloud

• Service Bus Namespace Management and Analytics

EAI

• BizTalk Mapper Extensions UtilityPack v1.5 – New version available with 7 new functoids
• Backing Spring Integration routes with ActiveMQ
• Error: Schema referenced by Map has been deleted. The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group configuration is out of date
• New project should I go BizTalk 2010 or BizTalk 2013?
• UnauthorizedAccess Error while Setting up ESB Exception Handling Sample code in BizTalk 2013

Messaging

• Scaling Out with MassTransit and RabbitMQ
• Akka 2.2-M3 Released
• Using ZeroMQ devices to support complex network topologies
• Lots of messages: MQTT, Pub/Sub, and the Mosquitto broker
• Error during communication with Service Bus. Check the connection information, then retry
• How to Install RabbitMQ Server and Erlang on Linux

REST

• Writing a REST client in Haskell

Security

• A WebAPI Basic Authentication Authorization Filter
• Dont let your Shared Secret be visible in the browser

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

• The Web API Checklist — 43 Things To Think About When Designing, Testing, and Releasing your API **
• HAL, Siren, Rabl, Roar, Garner: Building Hypermedia APIs in Ruby/Rails **
• ASP.NET Web API parameter binding part 1 – Understanding binding from URI
• Tastypie

Architecture

• Why is “Database Layer as a REST API” not common?

CEP

• Complex Event Processing Made Easy (using Esper)

Cloud

• Windows Azure: General Availability of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Data Formats

• JSON Dates are Different in ASP.NET MVC and Web API

EAI

• BizTalk Solution Documents AID–The Design Specifications–part 2
• BizTalk Server 2013 updates are now available on Microsoft Update
• BizTalk tracking data lost?
• Announcing Mule 3.4 – Next Generation Integration Platform for the New Enterprise
• Announcing BizTalk Server 2013 in Windows Azure Infrastructure Services
• BizTalk 2013 CU1 has been released

Messaging

• SignalR 1.1 beta
• Erlang OTP and ZeroMQ
• Connect to RabbitMQ (AMQP) using Scala, Play and Akka
• An MQTT Messaging Quick Start in Java
• Some queuing theory: throughput, latency and bandwidth
• Four Steps to create first WCF Service: Beginners Series ***
• Service Bus 1.0 – For Windows Server

REST

• Hyperresource: a hypermedia API client for Ruby
• Hypermedia APIs with mobile clients
• Apache Wink 1.3.0 Released
• HTTP PUT, PATCH or POST – Partial updates or full replacement?
• WebAPI: Getting Headers, QueryString and Cookie Values *
• To REST or not To REST

Security

• Building a True OAuth 2.0 API with Django and Tasty Pie **

Semantic Web

• Welcome to Restpark

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

** Courtesy of API Digest.

*** Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

• The API Paradox

Cloud

• Windows Azure: Active Directory Release, New Backup Service + Web Site Monitoring and Log Improvements
• How to: Store LinkedIn profile info in CRM2011 using BizTalk 2013 and Windows Azure Service Bus
• Getting Started with Windows Azure Active Directory *
• Service Bus Messaging High Availability Options

Data Formats

• Parsing OData – service operations *

EAI

• FIX: Missing itinerary designer after installing BizTalk 2013
• Configure BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.2 Management Portal
• BTS2013 features explained: XslCompiledTransform
• BizTalk Admin only installation bug : Failed to create WCF-SQL Transport Component
• When your BizTalk Server Doesn’t Know Its Name (aka [Error 7202])
• How to integrate BizTalk Server 2013 with Windows Azure Service Bus
• Attribute value templates in XSLT – an example
• BizTalk Server 2013 will provide Cumulative Updates using Microsoft Updates
• Configure SQL Server Network Protocols in the SQL Server that houses BizTalk Server databases with PowerShell

Messaging

• MongoDB Pub/Sub with Capped Collections
• Don’t Forget About the Kestrel Messaging Queue
• Scaling Out with MassTransit and RabbitMQ
• Tutorial on Message Exchange Patterns and Asynchronous Operations in WCF
• Multiple WCF EndPoints are not only about having Multiple Addresses Dude\! *
• Receiving Salesforce notification with NServiceBus
• A quick message queue benchmark: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, HornetQ, QPID, Apollo…
• Kafka 0.8 Producer Performance

REST

• GET RESTful With Python
• An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
• WebAPI Tip #7: Beautiful Message Handlers
• WebAPI Tip #8: Working with Tasks
• An Overview of REST Metadata Formats
• The ‘profile’ Link Relation Type
• NancyFX – Implementing your own routing\! **

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

** Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

• Designing Fault Tolerant Distributed Applications
• High Performance Messaging for Web-Based Trading Systems
• Akka vs. Finagle vs. Storm

Cloud

• Introducing Queues — Creating a Pipeline in the Cloud

Data Formats

• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Release

EAI

• BizTalk Server: REST Services Error Handling
• BizTalk Server 2013 – New Features Blog Series – Dependency Tracking
• BizTalk Solution Documents AID–The Design Specifications–part 1
• Error: Party ‘PartyName’ enlisted under role ‘Provider(Codit.MyRoleLinkType)’ has not bound all the operations of role link port types.
• BizTalk 2013 RTM – Installation and configuration issues I encountered and how to fix them
• BizTalk Monitoring Whitepaper is now available

Events

• Twisted 13.0.0 released

Messaging

• Implementing Routing Slip with MassTransit
• Writing a queue system in Redis
• Service Bus MQ Manager v3.00 Released
• Amqp Gem 1.0 Is Released
• 41 – federated rabbits
• Redis Pub/Sub…how does it work?

REST

• WebAPI Tip #6: Is This Stuff Only Good For CRUD?
• Affordances weave the Web
• The RESTful CookBook
• Extend your CRUD HTTP API with sub-resources
• Hosting ASP.NET Web API in LinqPad

Security

• “It looks like you’re writing a service!” – “Do you want security with that?”

• Nobody Needs Reliable Messaging
• Event sourcing and prototyping
• API and SOA convergence **

Cloud

• Running, Supporting, and Troubleshooting the Service Bus Cloud Service

Data

• Using Redis with ASP.NET Web API *****
• WCF Data Services 5.4.0 Prerelease

EAI

• Automating BizTalk Events with Windows Azure, BizTalk 2013 and ASP.Net
• Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Administration Essentials Chapter 3 – Monitoring
• BizTalk 2013 has reached RTM and what it means for Customers
• Rescuing a BizTalk Project – What are the common problems
• BizTalk 2013 is RTM
• BizTalk 2013 is now RTM
• The Evolution of BizTalk Server
• Problem while adding custom database to the BizTalk Backup Job
• PowerShell script – Restoring BizTalk Server 2010 databases

Messaging

• Intra-cluster Replication in Apache Kafka
• RabbitMq with EasyNetQ Tutorial ***
• NServiceBus/MSMQ vs RabbitMQ: MultiNode Architecture
• NServiceBus v4 – Beta1 is out

REST

• Designing A RESTful API That Doesn’t Suck
• WebAPI Tip #1 and #2: HttpStatusCodes and Overriding Conneg *
• REST WS in Two minutes
• Haters gonna HATEOAS
• A Description of Hypermedia APIs
• HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design
• Per request error detail policy in ASP.NET Web API
• CORS support for ASP.NET Web API ****
• ASP.NET WebAPI Tip #3: camelCasing JSON
• WebAPI Tip #4: Does This Framework Do SOA?
• ASP.NET Web API and CORS Support
• A REST wankery question
• WebAPI Tip #5: Generating Links

Security

• OAuth – A great way to cripple your API
• Securing ZeroMQ: CurveZMQ protocol and implementation

Workflow

• Scaling NServiceBus Sagas

* Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.

** Courtesy of API Digest.

*** Courtesy of DotNetKicks.

**** Courtesy of DotNetKicks.

***** Courtesy of Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew.