Emerging Order

As we found in several Azure projects, designing complex inter-system interaction is very challenging. Most Azure projects would involve multiple VMs, and multiple components or processes inside each VM, so they are typical inter-system design problems.


SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), although sounds old, is probobaly the most effective way to handle this challenges. However, we need to take a special view through the SOA len. We should emphasis more on Independence. If we can design autonomous and independent components, who can respond to the environment and messages in an intellectural and responsive way, the Order of the inter-system will Emerge as a result.  The complex behavior of the inter-system is hard to be designed, rather it will emerge from the group of independent components.


We learned a lot about the principle of Emerging Order from this project.
http://cloudsamurai.codeplex.com/