TechEd 2007: Sessions and Book Signing

 

I arrived in Orlando yesterday after a long old flight from London and should make the Party with Palermo tonight which looks like it'll be fun but as I'm presenting tomorrow it'll be a quiet night!

My two sessions are shown below, the second session being a very informal chalk/talk style session without any slides so if you want to know more about BizTalk Performance & Scalablity testing or have some questions, come along!

A book signing has been organised at the TechEd bookstore following my session on Monday, come along between 1815 and 1845 and Ewan and I will be signing copies!

My sessions this week are:

SOA306 - Building an Enterprise-Wide Instrumentation Solution Using the Microsoft BizTalk BAM Infrastructure
Monday 4th June: 1645 to 1800

Track(s): SOA and Web Services
Level: 300
Speaker(s): Darren Jefford

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a powerful feature of BizTalk Server and is often marketed as allowing "the business" to understand what is happening within your BizTalk solution. BAM does this really well, but it can in fact be used in a variety of other ways which can deliver huge value to customers and address a number of issues they have with BizTalk based solutions and non-BizTalk based solutions.

In this session, we cover some of the fundamentals of BAM and detail how you can utilize BAM to collect a variety of information and produce a "tracking portal" which you can use to support your application, perform manual repair of messages, and generally observe your solution.

We also show how BAM is not just for BizTalk solutions and how it can be used to produce an enterprise-wide instrumentation solution that is highly scalable and flexible; we touch on the new Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) BAM Interceptor technology that enables data to be collected from Workflows and WCF services enabling a true end-to-end instrumentation solution.

SOA13-TLC - Microsoft BizTalk Performance Testing
Thursday 7th June: 1630 to 1745

Track(s): SOA and Web Services
Level: 400
Speaker(s): Darren Jefford

Testing is a critical area for any solution and BizTalk is no exception. In this session, we start by covering the foundations that you need to put into place before beginning any performance testing, covering the most common environment problems that cause problems during testing and highlighting a number of tools to make testing easier including BizUnit and LoadGen.

Then, we cover how you should monitor your solution during testing; highlighting the key performance counters that should be monitored and explaining how throttling works. We finish by covering a number of common symptoms that you're likely to experience during testing; we explain why these occur, how to spot them, and more importantly how to resolve them.