Contents tagged with SO-Aware Test Workbench
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SO-Aware and the Microsoft Technology Stack
Since the launch of SO-Aware, we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the number of times other Microsoft partners in the middleware & integration space have positioned our product together with the rest of Microsoft’s Service Oriented (SO) technology stack when responding to competitive engagements against traditional J2EEvendors such as Oracle, IBM, SoftwareAG or Tibco. Our surprised is not based on any technical reasons (we built SO-Aware to fill the SOA governance gap in the Microsoft stack) but rather on how quickly Microsoft, partners and enterprise customers have embraced SO-Aware as a natural complement to the Microsoft integration and middleware technology stack. Read more...
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Speaking at Teched US 2011
Last week I presented two sessions at Microsoft Teched USA. This year my sessions were focus on Real World Windows Workflow Foundation and WCF Patterns.
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Making WCF load testing so simple a caveman can do it
As I mentioned in previous posts, during the development of the SO-Aware Test Workbench we literally obsessed about making performance testing as simple as it gets. One of the aspects that make performance testing so simple with the SO-Aware Test Workbench is that it leverages SO-Aware’s WCF centralized configuration capabilities.
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Speaking at the 4th International SOA Symposium
This week I am speaking at the 4th international SOA Symposium in Brasilia, Brazil. The topic?, take a guess… SO-Aware of course! Tomorrow I will be doing a session about agile SOA Governance that will illustrate on a lot of the principles SO-Aware is built upon as well as a lot of the experiences we have gathered in our real world implementations. Thursday I will be doing a session about RESTful Services patterns and I am scheduled to participate in a SOA Governance panel with some luminaries of SOA world. I am very much looking forward to a great conference and to have some great debates about service orientation.
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Speaking at VSLive Las Vegas
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How fast are my services? Is NetTcpBinding really that fast?
NetTcpBinding is often assumed to offer the best performance of all WCF bindings. When working on WCF implementations, I often hear from developers argue about the performance benefits that their solution gain by usingnettcp endpoints but rarely see any benchmarks to confirm that assertion for their specific scenario.
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Load Testing your WCF Service in Two Clicks
A few months back I was talking to a VP of Architecture from one of our customers about service testing practices and he expressed a very blunt viewpoint about load testing: “Developers don’t load test their web services because it's to F…. difficult”.
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SO-Aware at the Atlanta Connected Systems User Group
Today my colleague Don Demsak will be presenting a session about WCF management, testing and governance using SO-Aware and the SO-Aware Test Workbench at the Connected Systems User Group in Atlanta. Don is a very engaging speaker and has prepared some very cool demos based on lessons of real world WCF solutions. If you are in the ATL area and interested in WCF, AppFabric, BizTalk you should definitely swing by Don’s session. Don’t forget to heckle him a bit (you can blame it for it ;) )
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How fast are my services? Comparing basicHttpBinding and ws2007HttpBinding using the SO-Aware Test Workbench
When working on real world WCF solutions, we become pretty aware of the performance implications of the binding and behavior configuration of WCF services. However, whether it’s a known fact the different binding and behavior configurations have direct reflections on the performance of WCF services, developers often struggle to figure out the real performance behavior of the services. We can attribute this to the lack of tools for correctly testing the performance characteristics of WCF services under different load profiles. As sad as this sound, the fact of the matter is that the existing web service load test tools in the market can barely test anything other than the basicHttpBinding.