Ultra-Fast ASP.NET: Build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server

pemUltra-Fast ASP.NET/em presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets, you'll find advice and code examples for all tiers of your application, including the client, caching, IIS 7, ASP.NET, threads, session state, SQL Server, Analysis Services, infrastructure and operations. By applying the ultra-fast approach to your projects, you’ll squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your code and infrastructure—giving your site unrivaled speed. /p pThe approach is mostly prescriptive; rather than drowning you in options, the book presents and explains specific high-impact recommendations and demonstrates them with detailed examples. Using this knowledge, you will soon be building high-performance web sites that scale easily as your site grows./p h3What you’ll learn/h3ul liA way of thinking about performance issues that will help you obtain real results. /li liHow to apply key principles that will help you build ultra-fast and ultra-scalable web sites. /li liHow to use the emultra-fast approach/em to be fast in multiple dimensions. You’ll have not only fast pages but also fast changes, fast fixes, fast deployments and more. /li liTechniques that are being used by some of the world's largest web sites. /li liHow to structure your HTML and CSS to create pages that load ultra-fast. /li liTips for using Silverlight, Ajax and IIS 7 to improve the performance of your site. /li liHow to use comprehensive caching at all tiers to deliver content faster. /li liWhy you should avoid traditional session state and how to make the best use of cookies. /li liTips and tricks for optimizing your ASP.NET and SQL Server code for performance and scalability. /li liHow to use Analysis Services to offload your relational database. /li liWhy many sites that serve individual pages quickly are not scalable. /li liHow to avoid common pitfalls that can have an adverse impact on your site’s performance, both now and as it grows. /li liHow to apply an end-to-end systems-based approach to web site performance and scalability, which includes everything from the browser and the network to caching, back-end operations, hardware infrastructure, and your software development process. /li /ul h3Who this book is for/h3pThis book will be useful for intermediate to advanced developers and architects who want to improve the performance of their ASP.NET-based web sites. Some knowledge of ASP.NET, SQL Server, and IIS is assumed. Example code is provided in C#. Experienced web developers who have recently moved from Java or PHP to .NET will find lots of valuable and interesting information./p pThis book will also be useful for non-developers who have a technical interest in what makes a web site fast. In particular, if you’re involved with web site operations, testing, or management, you will discover many of the principals and issues that your development teams should be addressing, along with demonstrations that help drive the points home./p h3Table of Contents/h3ol liPrinciples and Method /li liClient Performance /li liCaching /li liIIS 7 /li liASP.NET Threads and Sessions /li liUsing ASP.NET to Implementand Manage Optimization Techniques /li liManaging ASP.NET Application Policies /li liSQL Server Relational Database /li liSQL Server Analysis Services /li liInfrastructure and Operations /li liPutting It All Together /li /ol