This is the final part of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol, covering composite types and messages, and the frame layout. The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

This is part 5 of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol, explaining the type system basics and the encoding of primitive types. The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

This is part 4 of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol, describing the flow control models. The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

This is part 3 of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol, describing message transfers and disposition. The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

This is part 2 of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol, discussing the core protocol elements, Connections, Sessions, and Links. The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

This is part 1 of a 6 part series introducing the AMQP 1.0 protocol. Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 The AMQP 1.0 protocol is used by Azure Service Bus, Service Bus for Windows Server, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, and by numerous open source projects like Apache Qpid, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo, as well as by commercial messaging products of other vendors like JBoss A-MQ, RedHat MRG, SwiftMQ, and IBM MQLight. The content of this video series is product neutral and applies to all AMQP 1.0 based infrastructure and applications. The slide deck can be downloaded from here.

IoT Solutions World Congress 2015 was held in Barcelona (Spain) last week. On a VERY NOISY showfloor, I spoke to Nicole Berdy (@nberdy) about the Azure IoT Suite, and to Colin Murphy about Windows 10 IoT Core.

With the advent of the public preview of Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging, it's time for a fresh Service Bus Messaging overview talk here on Subscribe. This episode covers some of the motivations for why and how messaging middleware helps in applications, enumerates the different deployment and operations choices for Service Bus, gives a basic overview on capabilities, and provides information on the failover and reliability architecture and the isolation model for the two major public cloud offerings for Azure Service Bus, "standard" and "premium". More details on Service Bus can be found on the Azure Portal.

Azure Service Bus is the core messaging platform that sits at the heart of many sophisticated Azure-based solutions today. Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging is a new offering, now entering public preview that builds on the successful and reliable foundation of Service Bus Messaging. Premium Messaging provides a number of key enhancements for greater predictability and performance required for the most demanding workloads – paired with an equally predictable pricing model. With Service Bus Premium Messaging, you benefit from the economics and operational flexibility of a multi-tenant public cloud system, while getting single-tenant reliability and predictability. The announcement blog post is on the Azure blog, and you can find out more about pricing on the Service Bus pricing page on Azure.com, in the "premium" column. You can create new premium messaging namespaces in the new Azure portal right now and give the public preview a try (click "Create" in the menu bar across the bottom of the portal page). And if you want to learn more about Azure Service Bus Messaging, there's a new 40 minute episode here on Subscribe that goes into more detail on Messaging in general and Premium Messaging in particular.

After a long hiatus, the Subscribe blog is back on here on Channel 9! In this "reboot" episode, Dan (@DanRosanova) and Clemens (@ClemensV) talk about what's next in Subscribe and in Service Bus and Event Hubs and about some REALLY BIG numbers.