Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform

Summary

With Windows Server AppFabric, now customers have richer features to leverage WCF, WF, and distributed cache features as part of their solution. Some of the challenges around hosting and monitoring of such custom applications are now made easier by hosting in the application server. The distributed cache feature provides a centralized store, elastic scale-out capabilities, highly available with low response times even with increasing workloads. As we look towards the future, this provides a good foothold to enhance the capabilities of the Windows application server.