Microsoft Velocity Architecture

If the distributed cache is not enough for anyone, Microsoft builds its own - Velocity.
There is no release yet, there are only a few Community Technology Previews, but work is underway at an accelerated pace. The project has a
blog http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity and a
forum http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/velocity/threads

It’s hard to say why they started it, maybe because they they always do, but most likely Microsoft continues to build its software stack for Azure. Velocity = memcached, Dryad = Hadoop + Hive / Pig, etc.

But this is not interesting, the architecture of the project is very interesting - heaped up notably.
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