Building and running robust distributed software systems in cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure, is more difficult then most development teams initially anticipate.

These environments impose very specific challenges to distributed systems, including:

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

MessageHandler has been specifically designed to make it easier to build distributed systems, using opinionated design patterns, while taking into account these specific challenges.

Our design approach is based on the assumption that the nature of information flow over time, often referred to as messaging, is more important than the structure of the data itself.

The 3 divisions of time form the basis for a pattern language consisting of 9 opinionated design patterns that can be used to build just about any system and still deal with the challenges imposed by the cloud.

MessageHandler is a set of libraries that help dotnet developers build complex, yet robust, distributed software on the Microsoft Azure platform.

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

The main libraries are:

Check out our quickstarts for a quick introduction to each of the patterns.

Or take the learning path, where you'll learn how to develop an e-commerce system using MessageHandler.

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