Landing Safely with Azure Integration Services

This session introduces the new Azure Integration Services Landing Zone. Not only can you provision a fully-fledged well-architected integration platform by clicking a button, but you can benefit from Microsoft's experience through heaps of bundled design guidance and recommendations. This session will walk through the accelerator components, highlight the key best practice principles, and show how to customise the solution to fit your organisation's integration needs.

First presented at INTEGRATE 2023 in London.

Data Mapping in the Microsoft Cloud

Data transformation is a key capability of any mature integration platform. The same data may be represented in completely different ways across systems and domains. BizTalk Server provided one of the most intuitive and powerful XML-based mapping tools in the market - but how do to handle other common message formats like JSON or CSV? This session walks through a number of options for performing data mapping in Microsoft Azure, including cloud-hosted BizTalk Maps, Liquid Templates, and more. Dan will also show a great tool for documenting these transformation.

Building Event-Driven Integration Architectures with Azure Event Grid

In today’s world of ubiquitous data and connectivity, customers expect information to be delivered in real-time and delivered to multiple consumers. Traditional point-to-point integration solutions or polling-based messaging architectures simply cannot meet this demand. Learn how to leverage cloud-based eventing platforms such as Azure Event Grid to push notifications to multiple targets, use intelligent routing, and provide unlimited scalability.

Building Event-Driven Integration Architectures

This session will discuss the benefits of event-driven application design in a cloud-connected world, and how to leverage reactive programming on platforms such as Azure Event Grid and other serverless technologies to build extensible and resilient distributed architectures that scale.

A Pace-Layered Integration Architecture

In this session we will examine the different layers of an enterprise digital architecture and discuss the varying types of integration models that work to connect those layers. For example, the Systems of Record may expose highly reusable APIs which are then consumed by the Systems of Differentiation and the Systems of Innovation layers. Each layer moves at different speeds and therefore has different requirements for ownership, release management, release cadence, governance, etc. We’ll also discuss the different types of Microsoft integration technologies which are best suited for each layer (e.g. BizTalk Server vs. Microsoft Flow).

Architectural talk only, no demos.

Migrating from BizTalk Server to the Serverless Cloud

Still hosting your integration solutions in BizTalk Server? Desperate to transform your high-maintenance on-prem/IaaS infrastructure to a serverless platform? The BizTalk Migrator is a command-line tool that helps migrate BizTalk applications to Azure. In this session we'll walk through the tool and demonstrate how this can greatly simplify the process of moving your BizTalk solutions to Azure Integration Services.

This can be a lightning talk (15 mins) or a full session (30-45 mins).

Advanced API Testing with Postman

If you've been working with APIs, then you no doubt have heard of or used Google's Postman for adhoc testing. But did you know that this simple intuitive app can also perform automated tests, including support for multiple environments, CI/CD, API mocking, and more? Come check out this session for a demonstration of some of the lesser known features of Postman.

Lightning talk (15-20 mins)

Maximise Your APIs with a Digital Integration Hub

Data is at the heart of every organisation, and the ability to share that data reliably and efficiently in a controlled manner with internal and external consumers is critical to business operations. But how to expose multiple sources of truth across a host of different interfaces whilst maintaining performance and security? Let Dan show you how a Digital Integration Hub can be the answer!

No live demos, but does show the Microsoft accelerator in GItHub that sets up a DIH in Azure.