Here’s the info:

Scalability is the watch-word of enterprise development. With increasing numbers of users, performing more complex tasks involving more data, collaborating with each other inside the organization and across the internet, almost all enterprise systems are being distributed to more machines, and even to data-centres across the globe. With the increased size of these systems, more developers, testers, architects, and administrators are required to bring them to production and operate them.

This 3–day course will equip you with skills in service–oriented architecture & design, transaction management, reliability & robustness, high availability & capacity planning, as well as many other design principles and practices key to tackling large-scale enterprise projects.

On top of learning how to handle the technical complexities of building enterprise–class systems, you will see the use of Domain-Driven Design and other business analysis techniques needed to decompose large intricate business domains into smaller, more manageable sub–domains. You’ll also see how to balance data–consistency and data freshness against costs as well as how to work with stakeholders to uncover the cost-effective level of each non-functional requirement.

 

By the end of this course you will be able to:

1. Avoid common pitfalls in distributed systems
2. Use loosely coupled messaging communication
3. Identify and allocated business logic to services
4. Decompose services into layers, tiers, assemblies, and processes
5. Design for service management and monitoring in production environments

Click here for more information and registration.

So, I’ve started thinking what else should be included so that you get the most out of them.

Here’s what I’ve currently got in mind:

• All the powerpoint presentations
• Full source and samples of nServiceBus so you can run the code as I talk about it
• 4 hours of online consultation so you can get up to speed quickly in applying these principles and practices to your project

If you have anything else in mind that you think will help, please drop me a comment below.

So far, 32 people have expressed interest in getting this and it looks like I should be able to handle up to about 40 in a timely manner with my current setup. I hadn’t originally thought about corporate licensing, but since there have been some requests (so that all employees can use the information freely, get copies of the DVD’s, etc), I’ll be doing that too. If you’ve already left a comment about your interest in the DVD’s, I’ll assume you want the personal option. If you want to change that to the corporate option, please leave a comment either here or on the previous post.

Pricing

Ayende mentioned that the guys from Dot Net Rocks are selling Sharepoint training for about $700 per developer for a day of training. I really don’t know how much to charge for this – the guys in Australia paid quite a bit and I wouldn’t want them to feel – well, like you feel when you find out that the guy sitting next to you on the plane paid half what you did for his ticket; especially given that they’ve done so much of the production work on the DVD’s (Simon, Brad – you guys are my heroes. I really couldn’t do this without you).

So, I figure that I’ll hear what you guys think that the package is worth first. Leave me comment, or send me an email if you’d like more anonymity.

I’d also be interested in hearing what kind of domain you’re thinking about applying this stuff to – I might be able to put you in touch with people already applying SOA and nServiceBus in those areas so you can learn from each other as well.

Looking forward to hearing from you.