Author Archives: Richard Seroter

About Richard Seroter

Richard Seroter is a product manager for cloud computing provider Tier 3, a Microsoft MVP, trainer, speaker, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog (seroter.wordpress.com) on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

Micro Iron Foundry Image Updated and Ready for Use

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Micro Iron Foundry is a VM image that makes it easy to add the .NET DEA to Micro Cloud Foundry development environments. This powerful combination helps developers design their Cloud Foundry solutions locally before pushing to any number of … Continue reading →

Posted in DEA.NET, Iron Foundry, Micro Iron Instance, VMC | Leave a comment

New Support for Developers Using Visual Studio 2012

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Iron Foundry developers are likely to use a whole host of different IDEs to build and deploy applications. For those building .NET applications, Visual Studio is likely the development environment of choice. Iron Foundry developers can now push and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Foundry Explorer, Iron Foundry, Visual Studio Extension | Leave a comment

Building Iron Foundry Apps that Leverage Windows Azure ACS for User Authentication

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Iron Foundry and other PaaS frameworks are built to deliver a set of services to developers for building applications. While we think Iron Foundry has a great set of web, data and messaging services available, it by no means … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Guide, Iron Foundry | 1 Comment

IronFoundry.ME Environment Now Running Latest Iron Foundry Bits

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Last weekend, we did a refresh of the sandbox IronFoundry.ME environment to make sure that it was running the latest Iron Foundry bits. As part of that update, we’ve enabled and upgraded a few interesting things. First of all, we added some … Continue reading →

Posted in Iron Foundry, Test Environment, VMC | Leave a comment

Managing PostgreSQL and MySQL Application Instances in Iron Foundry

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet One reasonable concern with PaaS platforms is whether or not developers can easily access and administer backend application services. Iron Foundry database services such as PostgreSQL and MySQL have very strong management tools that you don’t want to abandon … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Guide, Iron Foundry, Release, VMC | Leave a comment

Iron Foundry Adds Microsoft Service Bus as a New Application Service

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Microsoft recently released a beta version of their Service Bus for Windows messaging technology, and the Iron Foundry team has now added this as an available service in Iron Foundry. The Service Bus for Windows is a scaled down … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Guide, Iron Foundry, Release, VMC | 1 Comment

Choosing the Right Database Option for Your Iron Foundry Applications

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet Iron Foundry offers a host of database services that developers can leverage when building Iron Foundry applications. While there may not be a “wrong” choice (although in some cases, there are horribly inefficient choices!), how can we choose the … Continue reading →

Posted in Community, Partners | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Deploying Web+Database Apps to Iron Foundry Without Changing Configuration Settings

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Richard Seroter

Tweet One of the tricky things you’ll experience when working with PaaS platforms is that the local development environment won’t exactly mirror the targeted PaaS environment. While some cloud providers do a good job of having a local simulated fabric … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Guide | Tagged , , , , , , , | 1 Comment