Scott Banwart's Blog

The “Distributed Weekly” post this week marks the four year anniversary of my link blog covering integration and distributed systems. This will also mark the last “Distributed Weekly” link post. After four years I have decided it is time to hang it up. At this point there are better ways to find interesting links out there. There are plenty of computer algorithms capable of finding topical content faster than I can research and curate links and they are getting better all the time. (My current favorite is Prismatic) I have enjoyed curating links over the past four years but I am ready to move on and use the time for some personal projects.

I will continue to blog here and I am hoping that some of my new projects will result in more long-form posts.

For those who are interested I will still post links to my Twitter and Google+ accounts on occasion.

Thanks for reading.

API

• 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

API

• 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.

API

• 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.

Architecture

• 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?”