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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

Chapter 10. Web-scale Considerations

This chapter explores a few non-Silverlight specific concepts around the ways to scale your applications. These are useful techniques that can be applied to all the cloud applications, and they help to create the global applications with clean architectures. Architecting for the cloud has some subtle differences from creating the traditional applications. This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Asynchronous processing and componentization

  • CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation)

  • Globalizing your applications

Asynchronous processing and componentization

The ability of an application to scale in the cloud is vital when it comes to building large Internet applications. One way to ensure that an application is able to scale efficiently is by breaking it down into smaller, independent components, which operate asynchronously with each other.

Breaking a large application into functionally separate modules can have a number of benefits for the architecture...