Chapter 19. Microsoft Case Studies

A daunting gap exists between understanding the technologies that support distributed applications and being able to implement an end-to-end solution. The average distributed application comprises hundreds or thousands of lines of code, split into distinct layers and partitioned over multiple computers. Decisions that affect deployment, security, and scalability are made at every level of distributed application programming, and it’s difficult to choose correctly until you’ve lived through the full design-to-deployment process at least once.

There is one way to pare down the learning curve, however, and that’s by poring through the gold standard of distributed application code. I encourage you to examine some ...

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