Pooya's place (in the Gulf) : soa

SOA Day at Microsoft Dubai

pooyad — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:12:00 GMT

I hosted severl of our customers for an "SOA Day" at Microsoft Dubai today. It was an interesting discussion focused around SOA that also touched on specific areas where Microsoft has great technology enablers of SOA, Biztalk, WCF, ... . I'm posting the session slides here for the attendees and anyone who missed today's session. I'll be doing more of these around the region, if you're interested in attending, drop a comment on the blog or send me an email and I will add you to the invite list.

I held 3 sessions:

1. What is SOA, Why SOA - What is it and why are people interested, what is the value

2. Real World SOA - Microsoft's approach to SOA, not top down and not bottom up, but a hybrid model

3. How do you get there - Methodologies and Tools that can help you start on the road to SOA

SOA factory, another interesting webcast

pooyad — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:33:00 GMT

There's a webcast tonight (7pm UAE time) that a Microsoft partner is running on SOA factories. It's an interesting concept that tries to simplify parts of SOA with pre-built blueprints (the factory model), with the end result of auto generating WCF services.

Geeks II: SOA presentation

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:50:00 GMT

Geeks II was a great success and thanks to everyone who attended, the best part for us is to get to interact with the developer community in our region. You can see some of the coverage of the event already.

I've had some requests for the SOA presentation that I did at Geeks II last week, so I've posted it along with this entry. For those of you that attended the Architect Forum preceding Geeks II, you'll recognize the first part of the presentation on how to get started with SOA. The second part differed as I focused on the concrete steps a developer should take on how to actually implement the services since the audience was more developer than architect.

update: all presentations from Geeks II are now posted

Micrososft Architect Forum: SOA session

pooyad — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:20:00 GMT

Here is my presentation on Service Oriented Architecture. I tried to make this a practical guide and discuss what I consider a very important (but often neglected) aspect to a successful SOA implementation, business modeling.

It is in powerpoint 2007 format, the 2003 version is too large to post, but I will convert to PDF soon and update.

SOA Presentation from the MSDN Roadshow

pooyad — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:45:00 GMT

We're now about a third of the way through the MSDN Roadshow, thanks to everyone who attended the events in Oman and Dubai.

I'm posting my presentation for those who attended and want to review it on their own. There was as usual too much information and not enough time (espcially in Muscat), sorry guys but I'm sure you enjoyed all the great demos from Amr and we had to make sure you got some food before it ran out.

I'm very happy we're doing this type of roadshow as it allows me to get to know the developers out there and meet the architects as well. As I mentioned at the events', I'm setting up an architect forum in the gulf and would invite every architect (no matter what level you are currently at) to join. If you are interested, please drop me an email or leave a comment on this post.