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BizTalk Community series: Introducing Nino Crudele

Last MVP summit I met the only Italian BizTalk Server MVP Antonino Crudele (Nino) . He has been an BizTalk MVP for 5 years in a row now and that is quite an accomplishment. During the summit we had a nice little chat and got to know each other a little better. I asked him a couple of questions for my BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. Here is his story. Nino Crudele is 46 years old and has two daughters, one son and a fantastic wife Grazia. He lives in  the hills of the Val Trebbia near Piacenza (province Emilia Romagna , Italy ). Nino has been working in the consulting world for almost 20 years. He started as a C developer and later moved to .NET and the Web. He has always been fond of the integration aspects of development. One day back in 2003 he had the opportunity to work with BizTalk. This was one of the first Italian BizTalk pilots using BizTalk 2002. Currently Nino is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Raise S.r.l. ,

BizTalk Community series: Introducing Naushad Alam

Stories continue with the BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. The ninth story will be on Nausad Alam , who is currently one of most active community members on BizTalk forums . Not only on the forums has Naushad been very active. He has also written a few extensive wiki articles for Technet wiki like: BizTalk Server: Performance Tuning & Optimization BizTalk Server: Integration With MQ Series A few weeks a go I had a chat with Naushad and here’s his story. Naushad is BizTalk Developer/Administrator/Designer/Architect, working with one of the largest Bank in the United Kingdom. He has more than 9 years of working experience with Microsoft products. Naushad enjoys the BizTalk Administrator and Developer role the most. He started working with BizTalk early 2004 during a BizTalk 2002 project, and after that it seems he got married with this product. Nowadays he is working/thinking/sharing his knowledge on the BizTalk forums.

More Cookbooks: Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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I myself have written a cookbook on BizTalk Server called: BizTalk Server Cookbook 2010 for Packt Publishing. Yet there is another cookbook heading our way from this publisher. Fellow MVP from the “Connected Systems” discipline  Rick G. Garibay and Microsoft Architect Hammad Rajjoub have written a cookbook on Windows Server AppFabric. This book will: Download, install, configure and get up and running with Windows Server AppFabric quickly Learn how to take advantage of distributed caching for providing high performance and elastic scale on-premise today Take advantage of the enhanced hosting capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer including Auto-Start and a greatly simplified configuration experience Enable support for long-running composite applications that are resilient and fault-tolerant while maximizing computing resources Gain insight into the health of your composite applications seamlessly, both proactively and when something goes wrong Learn h

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook Released

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Finally my book with recipes for BizTalk Server 2010 is officially released. After a year of hard work it is available now. You can find the complete table of contents on Packt Website for this book. Before starting this endeavor I asked Richard Seroter for guidance and discussed the opportunity with fellow MVP Randal van Splunteren during MVP Summit 2011. Both motivated me to go for it. So I did and I signed a book contract with Packt . I did not want to write a straight forward book with recipes only targeted on the out-of-box capabilities of BizTalk Server 2010. So I decided to do it differently. This book will provide material on community tooling available on CodePlex like BizTalk BenchMark Wizard and many other BizTalk related tooling. Also Microsoft has built tooling for BizTalk like BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer , which can be very valuable in validating your BizTalk environment. The book provides a couple recipes on topics that you would not find in other BizTalk