ASP.NET Core is becoming popular for developing web applications because of its cleaner and lighter architecture and cross-platform support. Such ASP.NET Core applications are high-traffic and run in a load-balanced multi-server deployment. In fact, it’s common to see 10-20 server web farms and a few even larger than this. Having a multi-server load-balanced deployment makes…
Some of the very basic needs for .NET applications to stay competitive in today’s market are to be extremely responsive and scalable. The bottleneck in the way of achieving these benchmarks is your relational database. This is a two fold bottleneck, first the reads from disk are very inefficient and time consuming. Secondly, you cannot…
ASP.NET View State is a client side state management mechanism, which is used to save page and control values. ASP.NET View State is a hidden field on the page as an encoded Base64 string. It is sent to client as part of every response and is returned to the server by the client as part…
Microsoft ASP.NET Output Cache provides functionality to cache rendered content of ASP.NET pages or user controls for a specified duration. This allows your ASP.NET application to serve all subsequent requests from the cache instead of re-rendering and re-execution of a page. You add the <% @OutputCache %> directive on the page to use ASP.NET Output Cache.…
Microsoft Azure provides a platform for ASP.NET applications in the cloud. Very often, these applications are high transaction and mission-critical in nature. Therefore, it is very important that these applications are scalable and result in no data loss if a web server goes down at any time. NCache Details …
Many high-traffic ASP.NET applications in Microsoft Azure are deployed over multiple Microsoft Azure regions in order to handle geographically separated traffic. In these situations, the load balancer always sends traffic to the Microsoft Azure region closest to the user for faster response time. In this scenario, you may run into a situation where you have…
ASP.NET is known for developing high-traffic web applications. Many of these applications are deployed to multiple geographical locations. This multi-site deployment is done either for disaster recovery purposes or for handling regional traffic by having the ASP.NET application closer to the end user. In the case of disaster recovery, there is usually one active site…
ASP.NET today is widely used for high traffic web applications that need to handle millions of users and are deployed in load balanced web farms. One important part of ASP.NET is View State that many applications use. ASP.NET View State is a very powerful mechanism that stores pages, controls and custom values between multiple HTTP…
ASP.NET Output Cache is a mechanism provided by Microsoft that allows you to keep an in-memory copy of the rendered content of the ASP.NET page. Due to this, ASP.NET can serve the subsequent user requests for this page from an in-memory cached copy instead of re-executing this page which can be quite expensive due to…