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Published inOct 2014
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Geoff Webber Cross
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Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.
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Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
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Designing scalable and resilient systems


One of the main features of the Microsoft Azure technology is scalability. By carefully designing our system, we can build it to manually or automatically scale (elastic scaling) to meet our business requirements as the business grows, or to cope with peaks in system load. Databases and storages can also be designed to be distributed across databases and storage partitions, allowing large volumes of data to scale while maintaining performance.

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Scale out means increasing computing capacity by increasing the number of compute instances in a system (for websites and cloud services, this would mean increasing the number of virtual machines). Scale up means increasing the computational resources of a compute instance (for websites and cloud services, this would mean more CPU/memory/disk allocation for a virtual machine instance).

By breaking down large systems into smaller, decoupled subsystems, which interact with each other in an asynchronous fault...

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Published in: Oct 2014Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782173373

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Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.
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Geoff Webber-Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Read more about Geoff Webber-Cross