Candidate architectures

We will look at three possible solutions to the low-latency scenario outlined in the use case as follows.

Candidate architecture #1 BizTalk Server

BizTalk is Microsoft's Enterprise Integration tool and with AllFriends Media being a largely Microsoft-based technology firm, chances are BizTalk is already in use in one form or another. For the purpose of this analysis, the assumption will be that BizTalk is already in use and has the capacity to handle the additional load of this scenario.

We can take a look at the decision framework as it relates to BizTalk to see if a BizTalk-based solution is a fit for this use case.

Solution design aspects

BizTalk Server can easily perform web service aggregation using an Orchestration (that is, business process). BizTalk has the ability to expose an Orchestration as a WCF Service. A simple request-response schema would need to be created to detail the contract for this interaction. Inside the BizTalk Orchestration, each external...