Cloud hosting Sitecore - Cloud development patterns
In my previous post in this series, I looked at how you can use cloud platform features to provide automated fail-over between onsite and cloud hosted Sitecore installations in the case of a disaster causing a complete site outage. In this post I look at some of the key software design decisions that you need to consider when you are planning your cloud deployment. Other posts in this series Cloud hosting Sitecore - High Availability Cloud hosting Sitecore - Scaling for peak loads Cloud hosting Sitecore - Serving global audiences Cloud hosting Sitecore - Disaster recovery What about my application logic? In the majority of cases when we deliver Sitecore websites for our clients, the web aspect is just a part of the overall solution. Most of the time there is complex application logic, potentially storing data provided by users and/or integration into back-end services usually fronting line of business systems that are located on hardware running inside the corporate networ