Autoscaling Azure-Cloud Services

My role as an Architect for Azure COE requires me to have many different types of discussions with customers who are designing highly scalable systems.  A common discussion point is “elastic scale”, the ability to automatically scale up or down to meet resource demands.  One of the keys to building scalable cloud solutions is understanding queue-centric patterns.  Recognizing the opportunity to provide multiple points to independently scale an architecture ultimately protects against failures while it enables high availability.