10 Design principles of Azure applications

#1: Design your application for self healing for failures in distributed applications.

#2: Build redundancy into your applications, to avoid single point of failure

#3: Minimize Coordination between applications to achieve scalability

#4:Design to scale out

#5:Use partitioning to work around database, network and compute

#6:Design the applications in such a way that operation users have tools to use

#7: Use managed services (Platform as a service than Infrastructure as a service)

#8: Use best data store

#9: Design for evolution

#10: Build for the needs of the business