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Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

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Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

Overview of this book

Every day, architects and developers are asked to solve specific business problems in the most efficient way possible using a broad range of technologies. Packed with real-world examples of how to use the latest Microsoft technologies, this book tackles over a dozen specific use case patterns and provides an applied implementation with supporting code downloads for every chapter. In this book, we guide you through thirteen architectural patterns and provide detailed code samples for the following technologies: Windows Server AppFabric, Windows Azure Platform AppFabric, SQL Server (including Integration Services, Service Broker, and StreamInsight), BizTalk Server, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). This book brings together – and simplifies – the information and methodology you need to make the right architectural decisions and use a broad range of the Microsoft platform to meet your requirements. Throughout the book, we will follow a consistent architectural decision framework which considers key business, organizational, and technology factors. The book is broken up into four sections. First, we define the techniques and methodologies used to make architectural decisions throughout the book. In Part I, we provide a set of primers designed to get you up to speed with each of the technologies demonstrated in the book. Part II looks at messaging patterns and includes use cases which highlight content-based routing, workflow, publish/subscribe, and distributed messaging. Part III digs into data processing patterns and looks at bulk data processing, complex events, multi-master synchronization, and more. Finally, Part IV covers performance-related patterns including low latency, failover to the cloud, and reference data caching.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Architecture selection


Let us consider the components that make up this candidate architecture.

SQL Server, Master Data Services, and SSIS

 

Benefits

Easily deployed and extensible ETL tool

Designed to handle batch processing of large files, exactly the task at hand

No additional licensing costs comes with SQL Server

Can be built and maintained by current staff

Can build business rules to resolve data conflicts

Risks

Need to build sophisticated error handling systems

Does not handle unstructured data well

Search Server

 

Benefits

Indexes unstructured data

Can review administrative shares (such as C$) on desktops

Risks

Not clear if staff has the skills to support product

Still possible for users to "hide" relevant documents on portable devices

This is an extraordinarily complex data management task as it touches on all of the data held by the organization in every possible format in which the organization holds it. You must get data in both the organizations "approved...