This SkillsCast recording features NServiceBus' founder Udi Dahan who, in an inspiring keynote, will take you on a journey through time from NServiceBus' humble beginnings, into the present state of the Particular Service Platform, and will also give you a glimpse of the future and all the possibilities it brings.

About NServiceBus

NServiceBus offers enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations without any messy XML configuration - just pure-code bliss. It prides itself to be the most developer-friendly service bus for .NET. You can find out more about NServiceBus here.

SkillsCast recordings of other NServiceBus related talks for and by the Skills Matter community can be found here.

Upcoming meetups, talks, conferences and courses on NServiceBus can be found here.

About the speaker...

Udi Dahan

Udi Dahan is one of the world’s foremost experts on Service-Oriented Architecture and Domain-Driven Design and also the creator of NServiceBus, the most popular service bus for .NET.

Udi can be contacted via his blog at www.UdiDahan.com.

Find out how the engineering team at Wonga have scaled their platform in light of rapid demand and growth in their products.

Wonga Group provides fully automated, online short term credit to consumers and small businesses. Our appeal to customers stems from our ability to make responsible lending decisions in real time, disburse funds rapidly and provide a flexible and transparent service. Wonga is in the business of information processing, our software assesses a large number of credit and fraud decisioning data points.

The engineering team have faced the problem of scaling our platform to meet rapid growth in customers whilst at the same time increasing our technical headcount from fifteen to two hundred people spread across five countries. We have also transitioned from n-tier to a service oriented architecture, all the time there has been business pressure to deliver new features and keep the platform stable.

This talk will look at how Wonga leveraged NServiceBus to:

• Transition from synchronous to asynchronous communication
• Integrate with third party API's whilst maintaining a stable platform
• Build sophisticated monitoring to support and tune our system
• Deliver new features

About the speaker...

Charlie Barker

Charlie has spent his 15 year career working in financial tech sector, learning about the challenges that face these businesses.

He enjoys delivering systems that can revolutionize how products are delivered to customers. He is also particularly interested in building distributed systems that are required to be both highly scalable and highly available.

The Windows Azure Platform and NServiceBus make a perfect fit. On the one hand the windows azure platform offers a scalable and flexible platform that we are looking for in our designs, and on the other hand NServiceBus makes development on this highly distributed environment a breeze. In this session you will learn all about running NServiceBus endpoints in Windows Azure.

About the speaker...

Yves Goeleven

Yves has been shipping enterprise and cloud software since 2001. Having been both a consultant and trainer in the past, as well as Windows Azure MVP for the last 4 years, Yves is currently a developer on NServiceBus and founder of MessageHandler.net.

His main interests are software architecture, windows azure, messaging and hacking around with devices.

Hear from Thoughtworks' James Lewis who explores the real world challenges of deploying and managing many small applications.

The trend towards fine grained SOA and micro-services is having an impact on how we design and code systems. As we move towards developing applications composed of small services we are "pushing accidental complexity into our infrastructure" (Martin Fowler). While this has benefits in terms of scaling, maintainability and replaceability it also raises questions about our ability to manage large numbers of small applications in production.

This talk explores some of the real world difficulties encountered in testing, deploying and managing many small applications as well as examining strategies to help take advantage of the opportunities that designing for replaceability can provide.

About the speaker...

James Lewis

James Lewis is a Principal Consultant for ThoughtWorks UK. He has helped introduce evolutionary architecture practices and agile software development techniques to various blue chip companies: investment banks, publishers and media organisations. James studied Astrophysics in the 90’s but got sick of programming in Fortran.

As a member of the ThoughtWorks Technical Advisory Board, the group that creates the Technology Radar, he contributes to industry adoption of open source and other tools, techniques, platforms and languages. For the last few years he has been working as a coding architect on projects built using microservices; exploring new patterns and ways of working as he goes.

James has spoken at a number of UK and international conferences. His favorite topics range from domain driven design, SOA and the future of the web to agile adoption patterns and lean thinking. He’s also heavily involved in the fledgling microservice community. He rather likes the fact that he got to describe his take on things jointly with Martin Fowler in an article that is influencing how people see the future of software architecture.

In this talk, Roy Cornelissen and Mark Taling are going to look at how NServiceBus and rigorous architectural measures helped turn a slow and unmanageable SaaS application into a faster, more reliable and more extensible system. Along the way, they will explore a range of NServiceBus best practices.

In particular how they embraced the extensibility of NServiceBus to add support for multi tenancy throughout their system. In a deep dive into the technical side of things, Roy and Mark will show how they have extended Saga persistence to deal with multi-tenancy and the use Sagas in a number of different use cases.

About the speakers...

Roy Cornelissen

Roy works as a software architect at Info Support in the Netherlands. With over 14 years of experience in IT, Roy has designed and built many enterprise systems using Microsoft technology and SOA building blocks like NServiceBus.

He is also lead architect for the Enterprise Mobile Development competence within Info Support. He specializes in designing and building mobile applications for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, using Xamarin technology. Roy speaks at various software development related events, writes articles and blogs about his professional and personal interests.

Mark Taling

Mark works as a Lead Developer at Info Support in the Netherlands. He as been active with .NET/C# development since 2008, focusing mainly on Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation(/Silverlight) and since 2012 NServiceBus and SignalR.

Not able to accept that some things just don’t work, Mark is always trying to improve, extend and combine existing frameworks to suit his needs and occasionally blogs about this.

Put your questions to the panel at the end of day one of NSBCon. If you have you have an opinion, you're invited to join the panel on stage and discuss in detail your experiences using NServiceBus. The format is designed to pitch those questions you didn't manage to ask in the day.

About the speakers...

Join Danny Cohen and Sean Farmer for a deep dive session into the Particular Service Platform.

The talk will cover the platform's capabilities and tools (including modeling and design with ServiceMatrix, advanced debugging with ServiceInsight, production monitoring and extensibility features with ServicePulse), sharing best practices, do's and don'ts and providing an under-the-hood and behind the scenes view.

About the speakers...

Indu Alagarsamy

Indu Alagarsamy is passionate about Event Driven Architecture and Messaging. She has over fifteen years of experience as a software consultant solving problems.

When not programming, she is either rock climbing in sunny southern California or learning Martial arts!

Danny Cohen

Danny Cohen is Director of Product Development at Particular Software. He has almost 20 years of experience in software development, focusing on Cloud computing, SOA, large-scale distributed systems, BI and data analysis.

It's easy for developers to get enthusiastic about how simple it seems to implement an event-driven architecture with NServiceBus. Reality, however, can be quite different. Chances are you won't be able to start a new green field project to do this. Instead you'll need to add small pieces to your existing systems step-by-step and, hopefully, migrate to the new target architecture over a longer period.

In this session, Jan Ove Skogheim, will talk about how Rikstoto, the only licensed horse racing operator in Norway, moved from a layered service platform with Web Services calling other Web Services to a fully scaled out event driven platform based on NServiceBus. All this over a period of two years, while keeping the internal and external clients of the platform fully functional. He’ll talk about the step-by-step process used and the lessons learned by both the developers and the operations team.

About the speaker...

Jan Ove Skogheim

Jan Ove Skogheim is an architect and developer working on distributed .NET systems for the Norwegian company Webstep.

He's spent the last five years consulting and building solutions based on NServiceBus for companies in the financial, airline and gambling industries. When he's not working he enjoys giving talks at local meet-ups and user group meetings, preaching the gospel of scalability, availability and loose coupling to anybody who'll listen.

Spotlight is one of the world’s leading resources for professional actors, casting directors and production professionals. Over the last few years, Spotlight have faced the challenge of migrating their monolithic on-site infrastructure onto a cloud hosted environment, whilst simultaneously delivering new products and features to their customers.

Publishing photography and multimedia online is a key part of the service, and NServiceBus is a key part of the systems that drive our multimedia publishing workflows. Spotlight have used it to decouple legacy systems from their hosting environments, and to create loosely-coupled encoding workflows for audio and video, and in this talk Dylan will discuss why Spotlight chose NServiceBus, how they integrated it with legacy systems, and how using NSB influenced the design and architecture of their greenfield applications.

About the speaker...

Dylan Beattie

Dylan Beattie is a systems architect and software developer, who has built everything from tiny standalone websites to large-scale distributed systems. By day, he’s the systems architect at Spotlight (www.spotlight.com), where he works on HTTP APIs, distributed systems, and the architectural challenges of delivering cutting-edge online services in a company with nearly ninety years of legacy. He’s been working with Spotlight since 2000, and his first-hand experience of watching an organisation - and their code - evolving over more than a decade has given him a unique insight into how API design, distributed systems, Conway's Law, working with legacy systems, and recruitment can all influence a company’s products and culture. Alongside his work at Spotlight, Dylan is actively involved in the software development community. He’s involved in running the FullStack and Progressive.NET conferences, and frequently speaks at conferences in the UK and around Europe about software architecture and development culture.

Dylan grew up in southern Africa, moving to the UK with his family when he was ten. He wrote his first web page in 1992, and went on to study Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He’s a guitar player, musician and aspiring songwriter; his other interests include skiing, scuba diving, Lego, cats, travel and photography, and he's normally found hanging around user groups, pubs and rock bars in London wearing a big black hat.

Take a deeper dive into exploring the depths of the NServiceBus API with John Simons and Indu Alagarsamy.

Take a deeper dive into exploring the depths of the NServiceBus API. Among other things, they will focus on how handlers get invoked and what is involved when trying to invoke a message handler. Either build on top of what the framework provides you, or remove the framework blocks and replace it with your own. Get a better understanding of how you can override the default behavior and get the customization you are after by hooking into the NServiceBus pipeline.

About the speakers...

John Simons

John Simons joined Particular Software nearly 2 years ago and has been actively hacking new products. He previously worked in a contracting role with the Australian government where he helped develop a large distributed system with over 200 sites using NServiceBus.

Indu Alagarsamy

Indu Alagarsamy is passionate about Event Driven Architecture and Messaging. She has over fifteen years of experience as a software consultant solving problems.

When not programming, she is either rock climbing in sunny southern California or learning Martial arts!

Continuously delivering a top quality platform on which customers build and run their businesses is not a challenge to be taken lightly. Join Andreas Öhlund, Director of Engineering at Particular Software, for a journey through custom tooling, testing the un-testable and massive cloud service bills in the name of backwards compatibility, performance and reliability.

An adventurous journey indeed but an absolute must to ensure that the software you depend on delivers what's stated on the box.

About the speaker...

Andreas Ohlund

Andreas Öhlund is Director of Engineering at Particular Software. He has over 15 years of software development experience across a broad spectrum of technologies and domains and is a renowned expert on enterprise architecture.

Many people think that it is an either/or choice between Event Store and NServiceBus, this could not be further from the truth! In this session Greg and Szymon will look at Event Store and NServiceBus and how they can be brought together.

Whether looking at Event Store as a highly available transport or even as an auditing queue with full temporal querying abilities there is a lot of benefit the two can bring to each other.

Watch the SkillsCast recording to find out why!

About The Event Store

The Event Store is an open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in JavaScript. Go to geteventstore for more information and downloads.

SkillsCast recordings of other Event Store related talks for and by the Skills Matter community can be found here

About NServiceBus

NServiceBus offers enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations without any messy XML configuration - just pure-code bliss. It prides itself to be the most developer-friendly service bus for .NET. You can find out more about NServiceBus here.

SkillsCast recordings of other NServiceBus related talks for and by the Skills Matter community can be found here.

If this talk inspired you to learn more about CQRS and DDD, you may like to check out more here:

CQRS Questions & Answers on Stackoverflow

Github Repository: Simple CQRS example on Github by Greg Young

Github repository: Deploying the Domain Model Pattern

Upcoming CQRS talks, conferences and meet ups for and by the Skills Matter Community

SkillsCast recordings of talks on CQRS that have been given for and by the Skills Matter community

About the speakers...

Greg Young

Greg Young coined the term "CQRS" (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and it was instantly picked up by the community who have elaborated upon it ever since.

Greg is an independent consultant and serial entrepreneur. He has 10+ years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems and he brings a pragmatic and often times unusual viewpoint to discussions.

He's a frequent contributor to InfoQ, speaker/trainer at Skills Matter and also a well-known speaker at international conferences. Greg also writes about CQRS, DDD and other hot topics on www.codebetter.com.

Szymon Pobiega

Szymon Pobiega is a principal consultant working for Infusion. If there was any agreement on what does it mean to be a software architect, Szymon would probably call himself one. Szymon enjoys building software in all the stages of the development lifecycle, from creating a vision, through defining the architecture principles, coding and, finally, smooth and easy production deployment.

Szymon is an enthusiast of Domain-Driven Design approach to software development believing that it is a great way to build software that solves real business needs and adds value. In his non-billable or free time Szymon puts on a trainer’s or open-source software developer’s hat as he enjoys both teaching others as well as learning by doing.

Szymon publishes his thoughts on software development on his blog and shares almost every bit of code he writes on github.

Creator of NServiceBus, Udi Dahan, wraps up NSBCon, the annual conference on NServiceBus, with his final thoughts after two days of talks and discussions.

About the speaker...

Udi Dahan

Udi Dahan is one of the world’s foremost experts on Service-Oriented Architecture and Domain-Driven Design and also the creator of NServiceBus, the most popular service bus for .NET.

Udi can be contacted via his blog at www.UdiDahan.com.