Ultra-Fast ASP.NET presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites using ASP.NET and SQL Server. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets, you'll find advice and code examples for all tiers of your application, including the client, caching, IIS 7, ASP.NET, threads, session state, SQL Server, Analysis Services, infrastructure and operations. By applying the ultra-fast approach to your projects, you'll squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your code and infrastructure-giving your site unrivaled speed.

The approach is mostly prescriptive; rather than drowning you in options, the book presents and explains specific high-impact recommendations and demonstrates them with detailed examples. Using this knowledge, you will soon be building high-performance web sites that scale easily as your site grows.

Auteur
Rick Kiessig has been doing software design and development for more than 30 years. He is an independent software consultant who focuses on architecting and building large-scale web sites using .NET and SQL Server. He has worked with and advised companies such as MySpace, Shop.com, Microsoft, and eBay. While at Microsoft, Rick worked as an architect and developer for MSN, and later at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). His experience at the MTC included leading frequent architectural design sessions with some of Microsoft's largest customers to help them optimize the architectures of their web sites and other software. Before coming to Microsoft, Rick worked as an independent consultant in Silicon Valley. Projects included developing a large-scale content management system, and architecting systems to deliver web content to millions of interactive TV subscribers. He also developed mission-critical real-time software for spacecraft that have flown to Mars several times, to the moon and to a nearby comet. Rick has been an Internet user and developer since 1974.

Contenu
Principles and Method.- Client Performance.- Caching.- IIS 7.- ASP.NET Threads and Sessions.- Using ASP.NET to Implement and Manage Optimization Techniques.- Managing ASP.NET Application Policies.- SQL Server Relational Database.- SQL Server Analysis Services.- Infrastructure and Operations.- Putting It All Together.