How should I architect my cloud applications with Azure and .NET? Try the cloud design patterns

Cloud-based solutions are here to stay, and Microsoft has placed big bets on this technology. As a developer, you're most probably implemented already some cloud-based solutions, and even if not, you've probably started thinking about how to best implement these.

In case you need to architect a new solution using cloud-based systems, Microsoft has created a large library of ready-thought patterns. These have been collected to a new page called "Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications". This page is available on MSDN.

The patterns range from authentication to caching, and queues to runtime configuration and throttling.

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