Bhushan Nene, Grzegorz Gogolowicz, and I (Trent Swanson) recently released a code sample to MSDN code gallery codenamed project riviera.
Project
Riviera is a comprehensive code sample to demostrate how to develop multi-tenant highly-scalable line-of-business application on Windows Azure Platform. This sample is developed by Global Partner Architecture Team in Developer & Platform Evangelism group at Microsoft in collaboration with
Cumulux - our Cloud ISV partner. Riviera uses Customer Loyalty Management scenario for illustration purpose but many building blocks are applicable to range of line-of-business applications.
Click
here to view a screncast of Riviera, Architecture details and other related information.
Key features of Riviera
- Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
- Per tenant customization of data model
- Per tenant customization of business logic (using Windows Workflow in Windows Azure)
- Per tenant customization of user interface using Silverlight 3.0. Customization can be multi-level – custom theme, custom XAML, and custom XAP.
- Automated tenant provisioning
- Windows Azure web role->Azure Queue->worker role pattern for high volume transaction processing that can scale on demand
- Claims aware web service and web application using Geneva Framework
- Active and Passive Federation using Windows Identity Foundation and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
- Windows Live ID authentication for consumer facing web site
- Use of Patterns & Practices Enterprise Library Caching and Logging application blocks in Windows Azure
Notes
- Project Riviera is not a product or solution from Microsoft. It is a comprehensive sample code developed for evangelism purpose.
- Riviera includes implementation of Security Token Service (STS) using Windows Identity Foundation in Windows Azure. We would like to emphasize that this scenario is currently not supported (at the time of July 2009 CTP). This is primarily because of lack of certificate store support in Windows Azure at this time. So although the implementation works in Windows Azure, we advise not to do so for production environment untill such scenario can be supported on Windows Azure and product group provides guidance to do so.
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