Scott Banwart's Blog

API

• 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.

API

• 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 The local, cached version of the BizTalk Server group configuration is out of date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.

Architecture

• 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.

Architecture

• 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.

Architecture

• SOA vs. API: The Humans Win
• APIs are Dead, Long Live APIs
• Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know, but were afraid to ask)

EAI

• BizTalk360 Version 6.0 is released
• Configuring the BizTalk SQL Agent Jobs
• Test Levels of a BizTalk Solution
• How to monitor BizTalk spool table using BizTalk360
• Moving the BizTalk databases (part 1)
• Max DOP on SQL (or another reason to have a dedicated SQL for BizTalk)

Messaging

• ActiveMQ-CPP v3.6.0 Released
• An NServiceBus backplane for SignalR
• Release: RabbitMQ 3.0.4
• A new ESB and messaging platform join Red Hat’s middleware

REST

• RESTing in the ALPS
• Adding HTTP HEAD support to ASP.NET Web API
• Load testing REST APIs *
• Content Negotiation with ASP.NET Web API
• Rest with Scala and Vert.x

Semantic Web

• Linked Data Platform 1.0 Draft Published

Workflow

• Saga implementation patterns – Observer

* Courtesy of DotNetKicks.