Time to enjoy building distributed software

Building and running distributed software systems in cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure, is harder than most developers initially realize.

Cloud environments impose very specific challenges to any system built on top of them:

• latency
• quota and throttling
• security and compliance
• lack of transaction support
• partitioning and geo-replication
• polyglot persistence synchronization

MessageHandler follows a specific design philosophy which makes it easier to build distributed systems while taking these challenges into account.

Our design philosophy is rooted in the nature of time.

More specifically the way information flows over time, often referred to as messaging, is more important in a distributed system than the structure of the data itself or how it is stored.

The 3 divisions of time form the basis for an opinionated pattern language consisting of 9 design patterns that can be used to build any system imaginable, while still dealing with the challenges imposed by a cloud environment.

Focus on the flow of your business

As our design philosophy is oriented towards the concept of time, and flow, any system built with this philosophy will be perfectly aligned to the natural flow of your business processes.

Reduces cognitive load

Only 9 design patterns required to build any system. Which means there are also thousands of patterns not on top of mind for your developers

Stay consistent

Consistency in development time is achieved by using the same set of patterns over and over again to implement your business processes.

Data consistency will be taken care of by the implementation of the MessageHandler libraries, which take the specific challenges of a cloud environment in mind to ensure consistency of your data.

Inside you will find a set of dotnet libraries that help you build complex, yet robust, distributed software on the Microsoft Azure platform.

The main libraries are:

Each of these libraries is specifically targetted to support one or more of the selected design patterns.

Try out one of our quickstarts for a quick introduction to each of the patterns individually.

Or take the learning path, where you'll learn how to develop an entire e-commerce system using only a subset of the patterns.

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