Mocking Dependencies != IoC (or at least it doesn’t have to)

Since I met the concept of Inversion of Control (IoC) I’ve been a big fan!  What an elegant way to externalize dependencies and decouple a component from all the components it depends on.  No longer is a component initializing a dependency initially coupling itself in a hard way.

A nice side-effect is that an IoC-compliant component is easier to...

Windows 8: 20 Tips and Tricks

Here’s a very interesting article easing the transition between Windows 7 & Windows 8:

http://gizmodo.com/5891221/windows-8-20-tips-and-tricks

Applied SOA: Part 8–Security

This is part of a series of blog post about Applied SOA. The past blog entries are:

• Introduction
• SOA Basics
• Service Discovery Process
• Service Taxonomy
• Interoperability
• Service Composition
• System Consistency

In this article, I’ll cover security.  Security is a very broad topic and by...

Service Bus EAI and EDI

Back in December (2011), Microsoft released the Azure Service Bus EAI & EDI Labs.  This is a sort of CTP with labs.

It’s built on top of AppFabric Service Bus, but seems to contain much more than raw messaging.

According to the MSDN documentation, it seems that a lot of BizTalk concepts were re-used.  For instance, look at a...

Azure Roadmap 2012

As other news about Azure spring 2012 roadmap are getting public, I am now at liberty of discussing them.

Here are the highlights:

• As I discussed in a previous blog, Windows Azure will support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), i.e. stateful VM roles.
• %99.9 availability for single instances ; this is interesting since so...