Comments on: BizTalk and Performance http://www.udidahan.com/2007/05/02/biztalk-and-performance/ Enterprise Development Expert & SOA Specialist Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:16:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BizTalk Blogs and UdiDahan.com, strange bedfellows? http://www.udidahan.com/2007/05/02/biztalk-and-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-12723 BizTalk Blogs and UdiDahan.com, strange bedfellows? Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:05:14 +0000 http://udidahan.weblogs.us/2007/05/02/biztalk-and-performance/#comment-12723 [...] about BizTalk - every once in a while I even find something nice to say about it My quick post on BizTalk and Performance is one such example. But, let’s face it, a lot of the work I do is to provide BizTalk-like [...] [...] about BizTalk – every once in a while I even find something nice to say about it My quick post on BizTalk and Performance is one such example. But, let’s face it, a lot of the work I do is to provide BizTalk-like [...]

]]> By: Ewan Fairweather http://www.udidahan.com/2007/05/02/biztalk-and-performance/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 Ewan Fairweather Fri, 04 May 2007 09:01:10 +0000 http://udidahan.weblogs.us/2007/05/02/biztalk-and-performance/#comment-1583 Hi Udi, Great post! I agree completely with what you are saying here. I think your 'designing for these things up front' comment really sums it up well. Most of the customers that I visit who have performance problems with their BizTalk solution have really not thought about these things up front. In my experience some customers do not even performance test their BizTalk solution with the actual adapter they will be using in production, instead relying on say the file adapter. The file adapter is one of our fastest adapters and due to the nature of the transport is non-transactional. Once you add a transactional adapter into the mix you really have changed the ground so very very much, that any results you gain are unlikely to be comparable. I hate to give such a shameless plug, but Kevin Smith who Darren and I worked with on the Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book has written an absolutely awesome testing chapter which I emplore everyone who will be putting a BizTalk system live to read (and preferably before you begin your project!) Thanks, Ewan Hi Udi,

Great post! I agree completely with what you are saying here. I think your ‘designing for these things up front’ comment really sums it up well. Most of the customers that I visit who have performance problems with their BizTalk solution have really not thought about these things up front.

In my experience some customers do not even performance test their BizTalk solution with the actual adapter they will be using in production, instead relying on say the file adapter. The file adapter is one of our fastest adapters and due to the nature of the transport is non-transactional. Once you add a transactional adapter into the mix you really have changed the ground so very very much, that any results you gain are unlikely to be comparable.

I hate to give such a shameless plug, but Kevin Smith who Darren and I worked with on the Professional BizTalk Server 2006 book has written an absolutely awesome testing chapter which I emplore everyone who will be putting a BizTalk system live to read (and preferably before you begin your project!)

Thanks,

Ewan

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