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Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By : David Burela
Book Image

Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration

By: David Burela

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is a powerful development platform for creating rich media applications and line of business applications for the web and desktop. Microsoft Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Silverlight allows you to integrate with Windows Azure and create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure This book shows you how to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on Windows Azure. Integrating Silverlight and Windows Azure can be difficult without guidance. This book will take you through all the steps to create and run Silverlight Enterprise Applications on the Windows Azure platform. The book starts by providing the steps required to set up the development environment, providing an overview of Azure. The book then dives deep into topics such as hosting Silverlight applications in Azure, using Azure Queues in Silverlight, storing data in Azure table storage from Silverlight, accessing Azure blob storage from Silverlight, relational data with SQL Azure and RIA, and manipulating data with RIA services amongst others.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Silverlight 5 and Windows Azure Enterprise Integration
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)


Most of this book has focussed on the reading and writing of data within a standard "three-tier architecture", with a database, database access or a business logic layer, and a UI. This has been generally mapped to the SQL Azure, RIA Services, and Silverlight. All reads and writes in this configuration are done to the "business logic database". Depending on how you scale your application, this can eventually lead to performance bottlenecks, just due to the assumption that everything is done against that single database (reads and writes). There are many ways to mitigate this, by using database sharding (federation), by incorporating more caching into the system (Azure AppFabric caching), and so on. but there are limitations to how far a traditional architecture can be scaled.

CQRS is a different style of architecture that is starting to gain popularity among the creators of high-performance web applications. Entire books and conferences...