Summary

This chapter extensively describes the use of Enterprise Library in your Windows Azure environment. It outlines in detail what additions are made that resulted in the Enterprise Library Integration Pack for Windows Azure. A detailed autoscaling scenario is explained through code samples and snippets. The internal use of the Autoscaling Application Block is explained, as is how to apply this in the Geotopia scenario. Several circumstances describe when the application needs to be scaled, sometimes through constraint rules and sometimes by using reactive rules, which act on performance metrics. The phenomenon of throttling is explained and so is how to use it in your own application.

Analogous to the traditional Enterprise Library, the Enterprise Library Integration Pack is highly extensible, and this chapter also shows how to extend the pack by demonstrating a new action. Next, the chapter explains how to save the configuration settings of the Autoscaling Application Block in blob...