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AppFabric Caching Talk Materials

Thanks to all the attendants of the yesterday’s session. I had a lot of fun, hope you had too. Please feel free sending me questions and comments. You can find slides and demos from the session on my SkyDrive: Have fun. Yours, Vlad Share | var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};

AppFabric Caching Talk @ WDC Today!

It is still not late to register and take part in the talk. This talk is going to be one of the richest sources of information about AppFabric Caching available, so you will definitely benefit from it. For details and registration: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032460308&Culture=he-IL Here is the abstract for the talk: A vast majority of web applications use some kind of relational database to keep data. As it turns out, databases, while being robust, are the source...

Application Monitors may hurt performance badly

I’ve just spent two days and a night between them on the client site, trying to solve a severe performance problem with the application, that Netwise (the company I work for) has developed. It is an ASP.NET web application, running on Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5 on a 4-CPU/8G machine. We’ve fine-tuned every possible IIS and ASP.NET setting, defined data caching, output caching, profiled almost every line of the code, however, the application still ran very badly, even when tested with 50 concurrent...

Exceptions are common enemies of Web Apps performance

(Update: Thanks to Avi Pinto for pointing out at a stupid mistake regarding catching exceptions in every method. What I meant was that it is a bad practice catching exceptions in every method. Don’t catch exceptions if you have nothing to do with them) Yes, exceptions are one of most common sources of performance issues of any .NET application, and especially of ASP.NET Web Applications. Without going into details, every thrown exception, either handled or not, introduces a serious penalty on the...