Cloud Architecture (Part II)

Hesam Seyed Mousavi, September 18, 2013 Source: Microsoft architectural resources Horizontally Scaling Compute Pattern This fundamental pattern focuses on horizontally scaling compute nodes. Primary concerns are efficient utilization of cloud resources and operational efficiency. The key to efficiently utilizing resources is stateless autonomous compute nodes. State less nodes do not imply a stateless application. Important…

Microsoft Dynamics AX: Architectural Overview

Hesam Seyed Mousavi, September 14, 2013 Source: Microsoft architectural resources blog.mousavi.fr   The Microsoft Dynamics AX solution is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution that integrates financial resource management, operations resource management, and human resource management processes that can be owned and controlled by multinational, multi-company, and multi-industry organizations, including the public sector. The Microsoft…

Cloud Architecture (Part I)

Hesam Seyed Mousavi, September 11, 2013 Source: Microsoft architectural resources This article focuses on the development of cloud-native applications. A cloud-native application is architected to take advantage of specific engineering practices that have proven successful in some of the world’s largest and most successful web properties. Many of these practices are unconventional, yet the need…