If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Increasing performance in dot net web applications by caching static data.
Least effort maximum return method for increasing the performance of dot net web applications. Benefits of data caching and how to best implement data caching. Read more
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Really big numbers in Internet Access:
Recently while on vacation in India I needed some form of Internet access. Unfortunately it turned out that getting a short term connection from BSNL (incumbent provider) was in the too hard basket. So I opted for Reliance Net Connect 3.1 Mbps ( See Their Site ). Essentially it is [...]
To cut a long story short I’ve been getting really annoyed creating web crons to execute background jobs for an ever growing number of php sites. What makes it even worse on Windows is that scheduled tasks and batch files can get pretty messy real fast.
Being even more annoyed than usual today I figured I [...]
Polynomial cost computation is simply not scalable while linear cost computation is usually scalable depending on the angle of its growth slope. Fixed cost computation is almost always guaranteed to be scalable regardless of the data size. For this reason linear cost computation is always preferable to polynomial cost computation. The fact that fixed cost [...]
Sadly a large number ASP.Net web applications on the internet often do not use HTTP GZIP compression.
Most modern browsers support GZIP compression. The benefits of compression are huge essentially significantly reducing the size of the HTML content that needs to be transfered. The end result is that the page loads in the browser in a [...]
Executing heavy long running processing jobs within the application page lifecycle hardly ever desirable from a user experience point of view.
After all no user likes to click a button and wait 5 minutes for a response.
So how can we handle this?
This is where IIS application pools comes in to save the day. Lets take a [...]
