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Stef's Monthly Update - February 2017

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Last month was a busy month and in February most of my time I spend on the road or plane. Anyways, what has Stef been up to in February? In this month, I have also written a few guest blogs for BizTalk360 blog and did a demo for the Middleware Friday Show . The blog posts are: Serverless Integration with Logic Apps, Functions and Cognitive Services   Using API Management to protect on premise exposed endpoints Building a composite service using Logic Apps The show can be found in Middleware Friday show 5 th episode about Serverless Integration . During my trip in Australia and New-Zealand I did a few short interviews, which you can find on YouTube: ·        Mick Badran ·        Wagner Silveira ·        Martin Abbott ·        Daniel Toomey ·        Bill Chesnut ·        Rene Brauwers Besides the interviews a few Meetups took place, one in Auckland, another one in Sydney and a live webinar with Bill Chesnut in Melbourne. In Auckland I talked about the integratio
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Stef’s Monthly Update – January 2017

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Usually like most of my blogger friends I do a write up of what I have done and experienced at the end of the year. I write a year’s review, post a few pictures and publish it. During 2017 I want to do things differently, I’ll write a review post every month and look ahead a bit in the upcoming months. Why Stef instead of Steef-Jan my real name? Well the explanation is that many of my international buddies call me Stef, rather than my full name. And that’s fine, I do not mind at all. Thus, I have decided I will call or label my monthly updates as Stef’s Monthly Update . What have I been up to in January? I have written a few blog posts for BizTalk360’s blog . Last year at the MVP in November, Saravana asked me if I was interested in writing a biweekly guest blog post with integration in mind. And I said yes let’s do that and I started in December with two posts: Archiving BizTalk Messages using Logic App and DocumentDB Getting started with Azure Functions and using them w
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Integration, the community blasting into 2017!

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In the past, now and tomorrow I will keep saying that integration is relevant, even in this day and age of digitalization. Integration professionals will play an essential role in providing connectivity between systems, devices and services. Integration drives the digitalization forward by connecting everything with anything. Integration skills are still in demand. A LinkedIn study revealed a top 10 with integration and middleware in top 5 with Cloud, Data Science, UX and Web. And the expectation for 2017 is that this will be similar. Our toolbox is expanding from on premise tooling to cloud services; we have WCF, BizTalk Server, MSMQ to Logic Apps, API Management and Service Bus. Formats ranging from flat file, EDI, XML to JSON, several protocols open and proprietary, tooling from mappers to BizTalk360. It can be challenging yet much more exciting. My conclusion is more options, more fun, at least in my view. In February I, will be travellin
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Year 2016 in review, Integration is still relevant

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Last few hours before 2016 ends and what a year it has been as so many things happened. The year started off with finalizing and publishing an eBook on extensibility of BizTalk Server, which is available for free. My buddy Saravana made available through BizTalk360 website. The publishing of the book marked the first major milestone in 2016. The collaboration of Eldert , Johann and myself as authors and three awesome reviewers in Mark , James and Sandro delivered a 150-page book on the power of .NET and BizTalk. With the release of the book, Eldert and myself embarked on a speaking tour to promote the book, which we did in front of the BizTalk User Group in the Netherlands, online through integration Monday and in Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg). Thanks Mikael , Johan and Peter !!! In the spring (May) I presented at Integrate 2016 on IoT end to end leveraging the Microsoft Azure Platform services. And this was in front of almost 400 people. Who would
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