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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

Summary


This solution, using Windows Server AppFabric, WCF, and WF from .NET 4.0, demonstrated how Workflow services can be used to orchestrate communication between backend service endpoints with minimal code. There was no need to tightly couple any of the components and any of them could be reused by other applications. By utilizing well-defined data contracts, we can follow service-oriented practices and deploy loosely-coupled applications. The Scatter-Gather pattern is a powerful pattern to implement if you want to provide a dashboard view for users from multiple sources. As well as for financial services, this can also be used to provide a single view about an individual across corporate systems; payroll, vacation, and so on. AppFabric is a very powerful host and with some of its additional features such as persistence, it is something you should consider for use within your organization.