Ultra-Fast ASP.NET

From the back of the book:

Dear Reader,

Ultra-Fast ASP.NET presents a practical approach to building fast and scalable web sites. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks, and secrets, I present a way of thinking about performance issues that will help you obtain real results. 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 sites unrivaled speed.

I wrote this book in part because I want the Web to be better and faster than it is today and because I want you to help make that happen. I share the insights I’ve developed during the time I’ve spent working with and advising some of the world’s largest web sites, and during my 30+ years as a software architect and consultant. As a result, you'll learn the best optimization and refinement techniques to give your apps a boost without the pain of tweaking and experimentation.

My approach is mostly prescriptive; rather than drowning you in options, I present and explain specific high-impact recommendations and demonstrate them with detailed examples. Using this knowledge you'll soon be building robust, high-performance web sites that scale easily as your site grows.

You will learn how to:

• Apply the key principles that will help you build Ultra-Fast and Ultra-Scalable web sites.
• Use the Ultra-Fast approach to be fast in multiple dimensions. You'll have not only fast pages, but also fast changes, fast fixes, fast deployments, and more.
• Identify performance traps (such as with session state) and learn how to avoid them.
• Put into practice an end-to-end systems-based approach to web site performance and scalability, which includes everything from the browser and the network to caching, back-end operations, hardware infrastructure, and your software development process.

Richard Kiessig

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Resources mentioned in the book

Code download v1.0 10-Dec-2009 for examples used in the book (2.5MB zip with one solution per chapter)

Reader mail and Q&A

Online samples from Chapter 2