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Notes on apps, AI, architecture, and delivery reality.
A running stream of build notes and systems thinking: consumer software, AI workflows, integration boundaries, cloud delivery, product tradeoffs, and operating reality.
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BizTalk Server in 2023: Embracing New Challenges and Opportunities
As we journey through 2023, Microsoft BizTalk Server continues to play a pivotal role in enterprise integration, offering powerful and extensible features that cater to a wide range…
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hackerx event
I got a message in linkedin the other day, for the hackerx ‘back-end developer’ event. Never been to this kind of ‘speed dating’ style of social event myself,…
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Unattended BizTalk configuration
At my work, we had several stream of development servers, each with a BizTalk 2013 in the middle tier processing business transactions. Yesterday one region messed up, give…
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SQL Server Expired???
So I am working on a vm that was built from Azure gallery BizTalk 2013 R2 developer for 2 weeks, suddenly got this message today Microsoft, are you…
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Show hidden performance counters
I was troubleshooting the CPU bottleneck of the production server, didn’t see the process perf counters, it turns out this has to be updated ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance\Disable Performance Counters’ change…
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Merge deployment in BTDF and version upgrade
A typical BizTalk best practice is always to develop each interface under its own solution and dedicated BizTalk application. This also aligns to what BTDF (BizTalk deployment framework)…
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Learning using PAL
PAL is good, producing good quality report, as usual, the learning curve is not cleared documented. Problem: MergeConvertFilterPerfmonLogs : Relog.exe failed to process the log fixed this by…
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mllp
Some tweaks to apply under heavy load to the HL7 adapter Create the registry key MLLPSendFlushTimeout Create new registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\BizTalk Accelerator for HL7/Version 2.0 with following…
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Use deployment framework to import multiple bindings
The healthcare project I am in requires a one way send port for acknoledgement handling, it in turn requires a one way receive port to pre-exisit for deployment.…
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BizTalk connecting to a load balanced SAP server
If you are like me looking at Microsoft documentation thinking you can just use BizTalk server to connect to a load balanced SAP via message server, you are…