Food Movers: Distributed systems development example at MSDN
Brian Travis has a six-part comprehensive series on distributed systems development at theMSDN. It takes a service-centric (”SOA”) approach of distributed applications that is quite illustrative and pragmatic. I commenced on Section 1 but also glanced ahead into Section 6 (Going Live: Instrumentation, Testing, and Deployment) and this looks good - the series should be a *book!
*apparently he has published one - http://www.architag.com/press/wsig/