With the Service Platform, Particular delivers on their promise to create the most developer-friendly service bus for .NET. Other packages might be cheaper, or even free, but you often get what you pay for, and you'll end up paying countless developer hours dealing with the other guy's shortcomings.

With the Particular Service Platform, ServiceControl is your brain, knowing everything about all the messages flowing through your system. ServiceInsight becomes your eyes, giving you the ability to see how messages interact and visualize message flows. ServicePulse constitutes your ears and nose, listening for trouble and letting you know if it smells like something is burning. And finally, ServiceMatrix serves as our hands and feet, allowing us to move fast and break things as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, except that I will leave breaking things as optional and up to you.

Now that we have a handle on all of the tools of the Service Platform, in the next chapter, we will cover...