Cloud Computing Framework from Microsoft Research: Orleans
Grains and Silos. Promises are resolved if they are either kept or broken. It’s a bit of an academic read (well, it is from Microsoft Research), but it shows some very interesting thinking and ways of approaching the classes of problems the cloud gives us.
I wouldn’t say it’s for the faint-hearted, but it is very interesting.
Click here to read the paper (PDF).
Planky – GBR-257