In this chapter, you were introduced to the fundamental concepts of distributed computing. Also, it was explained when to use the right way of distributed computation effectively, keeping in mind the scalability and flexibility of enterprise applications. As Microsoft is moving towards an open source strategy, one of Microsoft's .NET solution Message Passing API (MPAPI) is available in CodePlex. MPAPI is an open source framework to enable the programmers without having to use standard thread synchronization techniques like locks, monitors, semaphors, mutexes and volatile memory. In this section, our objective was to learn the fundamental concepts of distributed computing. Microsoft .NET provides a few easy implementation framework with better usage guidelines.

In the next chapter, we will discuss  the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), which covers various methodologies such as Waterfall, Spiral, Agile, and so on.