The courses that were planned to be delivered in Paris, France and London, UK have been merged and will now be delivered in the UK on the week of Sep 13 – the original dates of the France course. Just to make it clear, the course planned for Aug 2 in the UK will *not* be taking place. You can register for the UK course here.

All the other locations will not be affected, and are as follows:

Toronto, Canada – Aug 8
Calgary, Canada – Sep 27
Johannesburg, South Africa – Oct 11
Sydney, Australia – Nov 22

I’m still in the process of getting a venue for the Seattle WA, USA course on Dec 13.

I also wanted to say that I’ll be cutting down on the number of deliveries of this course next year, most likely limiting the number of locations to 2 or 3, so if you’ve been waiting for me to come to your home town, well, I’m sorry to dissappoint you, but that probably won’t happen. So, if you do want to take the course, I suggest you register for the closest location to you above.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA & DDD

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  Sep 7th, London UK
  
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  Sep 21, Brussels Belgium
  
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  Nov 30, Austin Texas – USA

Loosely-Coupled Messaging with NServiceBus

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  Sep 16th, London UK
  

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There’s also work afoot to bring the SOA course to Australia in October – if you’re interested, let the organizers know here.

Those interested in a private course for their company can be contact me here.

And a quick, final note in closing – those of you interested in NServiceBus should now be able to find more information about it as well as how it relates to current and future Microsoft technologies on the improved NServiceBus.com site.

Register here

I’ve been in contact with a company looking at backing nServiceBus and, at this point, they’ve decided to subsidize the course. I can’t talk about the other things that are going on just yet, but will keep you posted as things develop.

So, I’m really thrilled to say that registration has dropped under $2000 which is just about as affordable as any regular 5-day tech course out there.

I told them we shouldn’t have any problem getting at least 20 people at that price, especially when companies sending 3 people will be paying $1500 each.

Help me get the word out. If you know someone who could benefit from this course, send them this way.

Thanks

SOA & DDD Early Bird

Jeffery already announced the early bird discount for the course I’m giving in October. You get 10% off for the next week or so. Sounds good.

Grid Presentation

I’m going to be giving my Avoid a Failed SOA talk to the Israeli Association of Grid Technologies on September 2nd. Full details here.

97 Nuggets

I’m really honoured to have taken part in the 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know project. I don’t think there’s ever been such a concentration of world-class architects on any one project (I really don’t know how I got past the bouncer). Take a look.

IASA Webinar

I’ve mentioned before that I’m working on a course on Reliability, Availability, and Scalability for the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). That’s going to take a bit longer to get out, so in the mean time I’m going to be giving a webinar September 25th on the back of the IT Architect Regional Conference in Philadelphia. I’ll post the registration link when it comes online.

SD Best Practices

Finally, the guys from Dr. Dobb’s are going to be working me to the bone at the end of October for SD Best Practices in Boston . On top of the full-day nServiceBus tutorial, I’m going to be speaking every day. You can find my full list of sessions here. Apparently today’s the last day for the $700 early bird discount too.

Come up and say hi if you’re at one of these events. It’s always great meeting my readers.

You can find the syllabus online here but I’ll give you the short and sweet version:

What I’ve done is boiled down several months of consulting on everything dealing with distributed systems development into 5 jam-packed days of must-haves, need-to-knows, patterns, pitfalls, anti-patterns, rules-of-thumb, examples, and case studies.

Take a look.

I was wondering if any of my loyal subscribers would be interested in getting a set of DVDs containing Udi talking for hours and hours about how to identify services, map out cross-service business processes, zero in on business fracture points to further decompose services into business components, and decompose those into autonomous components by analyzing non-functional message properties,  summing up with using all that information for choosing cost-effective technologies for each autonomous component.

In other words, get 5 days of training you can pause, think about, and replay as many times as you need. There’s something for almost every phase of an enterprise project, from top level architecture, through coding, testing, to deployment tips and monitoring tactics, so you can pick up what you need – right when you need it.

Please bear with me as I get the processes in place for getting this out.

I’m wondering – how valuable do you think it would be to have weekly live online Q&A sessions as opposed to the more asynchronous (and scalable) simple forum thing?

Just so I can see what I need to be preparing myself for, please leave a comment below expressing your interest. If you also know someone else who might benefit from this, drop them a link. The last thing I want to have happen is for this to take months and months to get out because I didn’t prepare things in advance that I could have.

And a big thanks to Simon and the gang in Australia for helping make this happen. It was a great two weeks and I thank you for that.

Combining enough project management philosophy with practical design techniques, attendees learn how to do project planning, and why the plan is never “done”; what kind of testing is appropriate for which project, and when each kind should occur; what it means to actually go into production and how to manage multiple versions of a software effort concurrently; how to use certain simple design techniques to enable outsourcing non-core elements of the project and how to manage those efforts; and more.

While this course won’t magically give you the experience you need to manage multi-million dollar projects, it will keep you from making those costly mistakes that can derail your project or even your career.

The course opens this July 29th at MediaTech in Haifa. Contact Belle for registration – via email Bell@mediatech.co.il, or phone 04-881-3332.

If you’re interested in having me come to your company and provide this training on-site, that option is available as well. Just send me an email to TeamLeadCourse@UdiDahan.com and we’ll work something out.

The course is based on Microsoft’s “Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures” course number 2710 and as such counts towards your MCAD/MCSD – were you interested in certification.

Here’s the syllabus:

Although the timetable isn’t set in stone yet, I’m going to be doing a full day course on July 2nd, so mark your calendars. The official link is here, but I’ve got the full information below. Here’s the registration page.

By the way, if you’re interested in having me give this course to your team, give me a shout.

Course Description:

Designing large-scale distributed systems is hard. New technologies make it easier to comply with today’s communications and security standards, but don’t auto-magically give you a robust and scalable system. Join Udi for a day packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon, and EBay. Tried-and-true theories and fallacies will be shown, keeping you from making those same costly mistakes today. Communications patterns like publish/subscribe and correlated one-way request/response will be used in conjunction with advanced object-oriented state management practices for long-running workflows. If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, if you are in charge of building a large-scale distributed system, if you want to know more about how the big guys run their systems, this day is for you.

Course Content:

Module 1: Distributed Systems Theory

Decades of distributed systems development have taught us many lessons. In this module we’ll cover many historical mistakes as well as proven best practices for scalable and robust design. Topics include:

• 8 fallacies of distributed systems
• Transactions

Module 2: Identifying Coupling in Distributed Systems

Loose coupling has become the watchword of complex systems development, yet few understand its multiple dimensions. In the module we’ll be covering the three different dimensions of coupling as well as patterns for dealing with them.

• Platform Coupling – XML/SOAP
• Temporal Coupling – Synchronous/Asynchronous
• Spatial Coupling – Endpoints/Topics

Module 3: Asynchronous Messaging Patterns

Although scalability is achieved through the use of asynchronous message passing, more advanced message exchange patterns are required to handle today’s complex integration scenarios. This module will cover the most commonly used patterns:

• One way
• Correlated Request/Response
• Publish/Subscribe

Module 4: Bus and Broker Architectural Styles

Enterprise Service Buses are all the rage these days. In this module we’ll be covering what’s the difference between the Bus architectural style, and the more well-known Broker, found commonly in many EAI projects. Topics will include:

• Architectural advantages and disadvantages
• Technological advantages and disadvantages

Module 5: Long running work flows

The distributed communications patterns wouldn’t be complete without a discussion on orchestration. In this module we’ll see how to manage the state of long-running distributed communication flows as well as:

• How to encapsulate work flow logic
• Advantages and disadvantages of orchestration

If you’re interested in the full 2-day course which includes SOA topics, check it out. Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA – learn from the mistakes of others, succeed in your SOA project.

Advanced Distributed Systems Design using SOA

with Udi Dahan – Israel’s leading specialist on Service Oriented Architectures

Duration: 2 days

Introduction

This two-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to design advanced distributed systems with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This workshop will lay the foundation of distributed systems development, distill over 20 years of theory, and draw an architectural blueprint of robust distributed systems design.

About Udi

Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP, recognized .Net expert, and a member of both the Microsoft Architects and Technologists Councils. Udi provides clients all over the world with training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services, specializing in Service-Oriented, scalable and secure .NET architecture design, and Web services. He is a member of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA), a frequent conference presenter, Dr. Dobb’s sponsored expert on Web Services, SOA, & XML, and a regularly published author.

For more information, please visit www.UdiDahan.com.

Audience

This workshop is targeted at team leads, application and solutions architects, as well as technologists who are involved in making decisions about overall system design of software products and projects.

Course Topics

Module 1: Distributed Systems Theory

• 8 fallacies of distributed systems
• Transactions

Module 2: Coupling: Platform, Temporal, & Spatial

• Identifying coupling in distributed systems

Module 3: Asynchronous Messaging Patterns

• One way
• Correlated Request/Response
• Publish/Subscribe

Module 4: Bus & Broker Architectural Styles

• Architectural advantages and disadvantages
• Technological advantages and disadvantages

Module 5: SOA Building Blocks

• Autonomous components
• Queues

Module 6: Scalability and Flexibility

• Configuring autonomous components
• Scaling up and out

Module 7: Long running work flows

• Encapsulating work flow logic
• Advantages & disadvantages of orchestration

Module 8: Service Structure

• Domain Model Pattern for business logic
• Messages
• Handlers
• Databases

Module 9: Technological Decisions – WCF

• WCF as an API
• WCF as a transport

Module 10: Asynchronous Clients

• The Client as an autonomous component
• Multi-threading and synchronization patterns

Module 11: SOA Blueprint – Total project analysis

• Identification of services
• Autonomous component design
• Message exchange patterns