Foreword

Service Fabric can be traced back to 2001, when I was trying to solve large-scale distributed system challenges such as leader election, quorum-based replication, and perfect failure detection. As I worked on projects in 2007, such as CloudDB (which morphed into Azure DB and is powered by Service Fabric), it became clear that a generic platform would be a valuable asset for empowering developers and enterprises to implement scalable and highly available distributed systems. In 2009, I began creating such a system to support large first-party and third-party workloads. This effort led to Service Fabric, which has proven itself in production for more than a decade. Service Fabric powers critical Microsoft services such as Azure DB, Cosmos ...

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