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Elastic and dynamic multitenant cloud environments have characteristics that make traditional failure management mechanisms using coordinated 2-phase transactions a suboptimal choice. The common 2-phase commit protocols depend on a number of parties enlisted into a transaction making hard promises on the expected outcome of their slice a transaction. Those promises are difficult to keep in an environment where systems may go down at any time with their local state vanishing, where not all party trust...

Reshuffling the deck is inevitable form time to time in any big company as projects and strategies shift – Reorg time!

I’ve so far identified three kinds. Let me describe them with an analogy:

Picture yourself on a patch of land in the middle of nowadays Germany in the early 1800s …

1. … you sit there, watching you potatoes grow and in the distance you see a big dust cloud with people and horses...

Load Balancing on the Service Bus Relay is by far our #1 most requested feature now that we’ve got Queues and Topics finally in production. It’s reasonable expectation for us deliver that capability in one of the next production updates and the good news is that we will. I’m not going to promise any concrete ship dates here, but it’d be sorely disappointing if that wouldn’t happen while the calendar still says 2011.

I...