Category | Architecture

Microsoft presented 24 Patterns and 10 Guidance topics for designing Cloud Applications. Design Patterns Cache-aside Pattern - Load data on demand into a cache from a data store. This pattern can improve performance and also helps to maintain consistency between data held in the cache and the data in the underlying data store. Circuit Breaker Pattern - Handle faults that may take a variable amount of time to rectify when connecting to a remote service or resource. This pattern can improve the stability and resiliency of an application. Compensating Transaction Pattern - Undo the work...

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 The guide focuses on the common challenges you will encounter when building applications that run partly in the cloud and partly on-premises, or when you decide to migrate some or all elements of an existing on-premises application to the cloud. It focuses on using Windows Azure as the host environment, and shows how you can take advantage of the many features of this platform, together with the SQL Azure, to simplify and speed the development of these kinds of applications.

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Single Page Applications (SPA) becomes popular approach for building interactive web applications. Modern browsers and HTML 5 provide power to shift UI and application logic from web servers into browsers hands. Mature open-source libraries support building of SPA without digging too deep into JavaScript trenches and fighting with technology problems.

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