ASP.NET has become developers’ foremost choice in developing high traffic web applications. Because of its scalable nature, ASP.NET application tier can seamlessly handle thousands of concurrent users with their millions of requests per day. Such high traffic ASP.NET applications are deployed in a load balanced web farm with a load balancer routing user requests to…
ASP.NET Core is starting to become popular for developing web applications because of its cleaner and lighter architecture and cross platform support. And, many of these ASP.NET Core applications are high traffic and run in a load-balanced multi-server deployment. In fact, it’s very common to see 10-20 server web farms and some are much larger…
Looking for Appfabric Alternatives? Today’s applications need to scale and handle extreme data loads due to explosion of web technologies and Internet of Things. The biggest bottleneck in the way of achieving this is the data tier with relational databases. The need of the hour is to be able to make this data available to…
Redis is an in-memory key value store developed in C/C++ with clients for various programming languages like .NET, Java and C. Redis has features to tackle critical issues but falls short in some fundamental aspects. On the other hand, NCache is a .NET distributed caching solution which when compared with Redis, answers all these concerns…
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.…
These days, many companies are running both .NET and Java applications in their enterprise environment. Often these applications need to share data with each other at runtime. The most common way they do that today is by storing the data in the database and having the other application poll and look for it. Some people…
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 able to scale and that there are no data loss if a web server goes down at any time. ASP.NET Session State needs…
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…
NHibernate is a very popular object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for .NET applications because it simplifies your database programming. As a result, many applications using NHibernate are high traffic in nature and therefore face scalability bottlenecks in the database. To tackle this, NHibernate provides a caching infrastructure so that applications can use an in-memory cache store…