Chapter 30. Let Service Broker help you scale your application

Allen White

Service Broker is an asynchronous messaging service, but that term does it a serious disservice. It limits the imagination and stifles creativity. In practice it becomes The Scalability Architecture of the Future! Okay, maybe that’s a little over the top, but in this chapter you’ll see some interesting ways to use asynchronous messaging to build applications that aren’t limited to single-database/single-server environments and that can easily grow from small- to large-scale implementations.

Scalable solutions

Let’s look at a couple of common application scenarios.

Many companies have decided to build a web-based interface to their services—not just traditional retail ...

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