Stefano Tempesta
CODE Author
Stefano Tempesta is a Microsoft RD (Regional Director), triple MVP on Azure, AI and Business Applications, and member of the Blockchain Council. A regular speaker at international IT conferences, including Microsoft Ignite and Tech Summit, Stefano’s interests extend to blockchain and AI-related technologies. He created Blogchain Space (blogchain.space), a blog about blockchain technologies, writes for MSDN Magazine and MS Dynamics World, and publishes Machine Learning experiments on the Azure AI Gallery.
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Design Patterns for Distributed Systems
Last updated: Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2019 - September/October
In "Design Patterns for Distributed Systems," Stefano Tempesta explores the transformative impact of containers and container orchestrators on the development of distributed systems, emphasizing the shift from bespoke architectures to reusable patterns for scalable and reliable microservices. Highlighting the advantages of microservice architecture, Tempesta demonstrates how formal APIs enable decoupling, agility, and independent scalability of components. The article delves into Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) as foundational tools for managing containerized applications, presenting design patterns such as replicated load-balanced services, sharded services, and scatter-gather processing to address modern demands for high availability, efficient scalability, and rapid response times in distributed systems.