Monthly Archives: May 2009

Presenting on Event Driven Architecture and MassTransit

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Chris Patterson

Event Driven Architecture Business applications no longer exist as isolated systems. In order to provide integrated solutions that add business value, applications must be connected. Modern approaches for enterprise application integration (EAI) such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) separate applications … Continue reading →

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MassTransit Now Speaks XML By Default

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Chris Patterson

Last night, I made a major update to the trunk of MassTransit that changes the default message format from binary to XML. Since the first drop of MassTransit, the default format for messages was binary. This had several advantages, one … Continue reading →

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MassTransit Saga Enhancements for Event Processing

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Chris Patterson

In the past year, I’ve been learning about Event Driven Architecture and how using it in the enterprise can make adding functionality over time easier through a loosely-coupled event-based architecture. With Event Driven Architecture, business components can subscribe and react … Continue reading →

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I’m Down With M.V.C., Yeah You Know Me!

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Chris Patterson

Over the past week, I’ve had some time to dig into the new ASP.NET MVC framework. For starters, my background in web development is mostly classic ASP talking to COM objects built in C++. I’ve only used ASP.NET to provide … Continue reading →

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