March 2010 Blog Posts (2)

We often get people saying they are losing messages with using the MSMQ topic...

When we investigate, they aren't. But, some things are happening that can confuse.

The number one offender for message "loss" is using two instances of the same Party Id . This is easy to do with Adapters and Connectors and Queued Topics.

The net effect of that is the message will always be delivered to one Party..It's a non mulitcasting queue under there so that…

Many times load balancing can change what the optimal solution is for a given deployment.

Unless careful consideration is given to what is trying to be accomplished then some erroneous conclusions can be arrived at...

For example, people take it as gospel that netTcp binding is superior for performance... That might not be the case depending on how you're using it. Pooling and affinity are great...unless you want to scale in a round robin…