ASP.NET Application Scalability Guide

Question

Is there a guide published by Microsoft or someone else about best practices for creating scalable web applications? as patterns to use and ways to access data.

Answer 1

The best advice I can give is to do these three things (roughly in order):

• Avoid Unnecessary Postbacks
• Avoid over viewing.
• Spend time optimizing your database.

Answer 2

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group is a great marketplace for this.

Edit: Here is their guide specifically for scalability and performance . Chapter 6 contains information related to ASP.NET performance, and Chapter 17 contains tuning information.

Answer 3

This is an excellent article on the scale: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb924375.aspx mainly discusses load balancing, session affinity, and caching all of which are important in any large-scale discussion. If after that you have a specific question, let us know.

Answer 4

I would read the MVC Storefront series . It is based on ASP.NET MVC, but takes a good approach to building a loosely coupled, well-designed website. You can easily apply most of the principles to a website as needed (although I would recommend going with MVC if you have a choice ...)