Category Archives: NServiceBus

One of the more interesting features of NServiceBus is the ability to schedule messages and send messages in the future. The default implementation works well for simple cases, where you have messages that need to be sent every X seconds. … Continue reading →

About a week ago or so I presented at Dallas Day of .NET on Keeping Integration Sane with NServiceBus. I talked about the three main ways I’ve had to integrate with other systems I don’t control, including: Sending files Receiving … Continue reading →

One common scenario we see with NServiceBus is the desire to have different configuration in different environments. For frameworks and applications that rely on external configuration, such as the .config file or other external store, there’s an easy route to … Continue reading →

Andreas Öhlund posted recently on the concept of the “transport message” in NServiceBus. One of the mistakes I often see (and made myself) was misunderstanding the boundary of the unit of work NServiceBus applies to messages, especially around sending multiple … Continue reading →

We use NServiceBus quite a lot to manage integration points where the other side isn’t transactional and we need to “shore up the process” of communicating with external services. One integration point we often don’t think about in terms of … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, one of our hosting providers switched a number of our hosted servers from DHCP to use NAT internally, but kept the same external IP addresses. Evidently we had exhausted the IPv4 addresses internally, and a … Continue reading →

Check it out on the Distributed Podcast site here. We cover quite a wide variety of topics, from DTC, testing NServiceBus, migrating legacy systems and more. Thanks to the two Jonathans, Andreas and Rinat for inviting me on, and to … Continue reading →