10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets
ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and
scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile
provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster.
Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code
that gets hit on each and every request. Not only that, ASP.NET Worker Process can be
pushed to its limit to squeeze out every drop of performance out of it. Page fragment
output caching on the browser (not on the server) can save significant amount of download
time on repeated visits. On demand UI loading can give your site a fast and smooth
feeling. Finally, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and proper use of HTTP Cache headers
can make your website screaming fast when implemented properly. In this article, you will
learn these techniques that can give your ASP.NET application a big performance and
scalability boost and prepare it to perform well under 10 times to 100 times more
traffic.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/10ASPNetPerformance.aspx
In this article I have shown the following techniques:
- ASP.NET Pipeline optimization
- ASP.NET Process configuration optimization
- Things you must do for ASP.NET before going live
- Content Delivery Network
- Caching AJAX calls on browser
- Making best use of Browser Cache
- On demand progressive UI loading for fast smooth experience
- Optimize ASP.NET 2.0 Profile provider
- How to query ASP.NET 2.0 Membership tables without bringing down the site
- Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attack
The above techniques can be implemented on any ASP.NET website especially those who
use ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and Profile provider.
You can learn a lot more about performance and scalability improvement of ASP.NET and
ASP.NET AJAX websites from my book -
Building a Web 2.0 portal using
ASP.NET 3.5.