Post KaizenConf

Dru![wow]

Well, Chris and I are driving home from KaizenConf and we are still reeling a bit from all of the conversations that we had. As usual, with this group of committed students and teachers I am left feeling comforted and secured in not only the way I approach software development, but also in the way I continue to seek a better way to approach life. Enough with the platitudes and on to the real topic.

What's next for Mass Transit

Holy Shinikes! Chris and I were amazed with the number of people that were interested in the project/topic. The best part was that the discussions that we had were not so much about MT specifically, but more about how to go about building distributed systems with examples in MT. We talked about strategies of use and patterns rather than how to best leverage Consumes<T>.All. Its with these conversations that we can go back and really grind on MT to make it a tool that people can both understand and use.

THANK YOU

We were additionally impressed that the ESB topic was chosen as a follow up topic to be discussed in the action item sessions, you can see the notes here and expect to see action.

One of the big topics was documentation, consider your message heard loud and clear. There will soon be a wiki for MT (HERE) and a dedicated effort to document the published interfaces, as well as some hands on style labs, and a new and improved sample. Several people at the conference have said they would help with the documentation (THANK YOU). I have added some initial wiki topics and invite you to go to town.

One of the things that we have tried to do with MT is reduce the complexity of writing multi-threaded systems. One of the things that we discussed that we con do to make this even simpler is to study other languages. We discussed erlang and F# in the process and intend to do more research in this area to see if we can't bring in some of the other languages good parts, and make even simpler and more reliable.

So keep your eyes open and the conversation flowing.

-d