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I was playing around with F# and Suave to build a service and the first thing I usually do whenever I dive into a new language and web framework is figure out how to deploy it to a public cloud. This helps me create a pipeline so I can test

HttpPlatformHandler: Microsoft recently release the HttpPlatformHandler [http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/04/announcing-the-release-of-the-httpplatformhandler-module-for-iis-8/] module for IIS 8+. This module will allow any process that can receive request on some port to be used in IIS. What this means is that you can now host server of any language

What is location transparency "In computer networks, location transparency is the use of logical names to identify network resources, independent of both the user's location and the resource location." - Wikipedia [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_transparency] In distirbuted systems its is very beneficial