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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

Candidate architectures


We will look at three possible solutions to the low-latency scenario outlined in the use case as follows.

Candidate architecture #1 BizTalk Server

BizTalk is Microsoft's Enterprise Integration tool and with AllFriends Media being a largely Microsoft-based technology firm, chances are BizTalk is already in use in one form or another. For the purpose of this analysis, the assumption will be that BizTalk is already in use and has the capacity to handle the additional load of this scenario.

We can take a look at the decision framework as it relates to BizTalk to see if a BizTalk-based solution is a fit for this use case.

Solution design aspects

BizTalk Server can easily perform web service aggregation using an Orchestration (that is, business process). BizTalk has the ability to expose an Orchestration as a WCF Service. A simple request-response schema would need to be created to detail the contract for this interaction. Inside the BizTalk Orchestration, each external...