About the Authors

Karthik Bharathy is a Lead Program Manager in the BizTalk product group with nearly a decade of software experience. He has been with the product group since the days when BizTalk Services started off as a set of ideas on the drawing board. He has also shipped releases of BizTalk Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. In his current role, he oversees the B2B platform experience across industry verticals. He has presented at several Microsoft conferences, including BizTalk Summit US and Europe, TechEd EMEA and US, TechReady US, MVP Summit US, and TechDays India.

His passion for computers started at the age of 12 when he coded BASIC on the ZX Spectrum. He graduated from Bangalore University in Computer Science summa cum laude and also holds a management degree from the Indian School of Business. In his spare time, he is usually travelling and is a major foodie.

To all the members of the BizTalk family—the product group, CSS, DPE, CAT, Marketing, UE, and UX—thank you for building this awesome integration product called BizTalk. I truly appreciate the complexity of the middleware breathing BizTalk every day! I would like to thank Vivek Dalvi, Sandeep Prabhu, Shridhar Diwan, and Rajesh Ramamirtham for the discussions and support while writing this book.

I would like to thank the MVP community for their discussions on BizTalk. I learned a lot from you guys and I respect the level of commitment you inspire towards the product. I would like to thank Steef-Jan Wiggers, Richard Seroter, Michael Stephenson, Sarvana Kumar, Sandro Pereira, Kent Weare, Mick Badran, Rick Garibay, Stephen Thomas, Bill Chestnut, Sam Vanhoutte, Dwight Goins, Ben Cline, and Mikael Hakansson for their constant feedback on BizTalk.

Special thanks to Scott Guthrie for agreeing to write the foreword of this book, and thanks to our Content Development Editor Shaon Basu and Project Coordinator Aboli Ambardekar, whose reminders and feedback kept us on our toes and helped us land the book on time.

Above all, I would like to thank my wife, Thulasi and my parents who supported and encouraged me throughout this journey.

Jon Fancey is an integration veteran who has worked on the Microsoft stack for over 20 years. He is a nine-time Microsoft Integration MVP and has worked closely with both the BizTalk Server and Host Integration Server product groups for nearly a decade. He has presented at many major conferences including TechEd, DevWeek, and the 2014 London BizTalk Summit. He has also written numerous articles and whitepapers for MSDN on BizTalk, SharePoint, and other topics.

Jon co-founded Affinus, a UK-based Microsoft partner, with Kevin B. Smith, formerly from the BizTalk product group, shipping the first three versions of the BizTalk product. Affinus works closely with large enterprise customers on interesting integration challenges, helping them move to the cloud.

Jon lives in West Sussex, UK, with his wife Fiona and two children, Ben and Tom, and their dog, Dilly.

I would like to thank the following for their help and assistance: Kevin Smith, Tomas Restrepo, and Steef-Jan Wiggers for tirelessly reviewing every word of this book, especially Steef-Jan who turned it round in a weekend on very tight deadlines. You all made it a better book, and I am very grateful for that. I'd also like to thank other members of the Affinus family, Daniel Probert and Simon Poulter, who've put up with me discussing this project for a very long time and guided my thinking along the way.

A special thanks goes to Scott and Vivek for agreeing to write forewords for us, your support on this project has been very much appreciated. And of course thanks to everyone at Packt for their support and encouragement, and deadline management!

Finally, I'd like to thank my family for giving me the time and space to write my first book; I know it's tough sometimes and without your encouragement and support this project wouldn't have been possible.

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