A few months ago I worked on a nice proof-of-concept showing the capabilities of both the awesome NServiceBus platform (for building SOA type applications easily on .NET and monitoring them), and Elasticsearch + Kibana (for real-time analytics and visual dashboards). I never made that public and may...

Many modern systems require close to 100% up time, and many of them also deal with large amounts of data. The common practice today is to do this by employing SOA methodologies to build a distributed system, read: have different software handle different roles of your system, and have each of those ...