Preface
Back in May 2009, I had a lengthy chat with Ewan Fairweather who was a technical reviewer on my first book. We talked about the host of products that Microsoft had either released or planned to release, and how it seemed increasingly difficult for an architect to keep up with such a constant stream of new offerings. It's one thing to read a press release or a whitepaper and get the marketing spin on a product, but it's something else to truly grasp their ideal use cases and challenges. Ewan and I agreed that it would be a useful exercise to try to craft around a dozen enterprise IT use cases and evaluate which Microsoft product is truly the best fit for each scenario. Thus, a book idea was born.
To make an educated choice on which product ...
Get Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
