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Gain an in depth view of optimizing the performance of BizTalk Server. This book provides best practices and techniques for improving development of high mission critical solutions. You´ll see how the BizTalk Server engine works and how to proactively detect and remedy potential bottlenecks before they occur.

The book starts with an overview of the BizTalk Server internal mechanisms that will help you understand the optimizations detailed throughout the book. You´ll then see how the mechanisms can be applied to a BizTalk Server environment to improve low and high latency throughput scenarios. A section on testing BizTalk server solutions will guide you through the most frequently adopted techniques used to develop solutions such as performance and unit testing as part of the development cycle.

With BizTalk Server 2016 you´ll see how to apply side-by-side versioning to your solutions to reduce the chances of downtime, You´ll also review instrumentation techniques using Event Traces for windows and business activity monitoring (BAM). While the book is focused on the latest version of BizTalk Server, most of the topics discussed will also work with BizTalk Server 2013R2.

What You´ll Learn

Review BizTalk Server internals and how the message engine works

Understand BizTalk Server architecture

Gather and analyze BizTalk Server performance data
Develop BizTalk Server performance solutions

Use advanced troubleshooting tools to help diagnose your platform

Who This Book Is For

Those who have strong BizTalk and .NET Framework knowledge and want to get their BizTalk Server knowledge to the next level

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Chapter 1: Revealing the Black Box

Chapter 2: Performance Analysis

Chapter 3: Performance Tools

Chapter 4: Optimizing the BizTalk Server Platform

Chapter 5: Instrumenting BizTalk Solutions

Chapter 6: Developing high performance solutions

Chapter 7: Decreasing downtime

Chapter 8: Monitoring using BizTalk 360

Chapter 9: Testing BizTalk Server Solutions

Chapter 10: A BizTalk Server tale

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Agustín Mántaras discovered BizTalk Server back in 2004, working on its implementation in one of Spain´s largest banks. His passion for developing and architecting BizTalk solutions continued to grow and in 2008, he joined Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer, a job that has taken him around the globe to work on some the biggest BizTalk server implementations. He is currently based in United Arab Emirates, delivering BizTalk and Azure services to clients in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe.

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