Once you start distributing your ASP.NET website across multiple webservers, you're going to need a way to share session state. That is, unless your app is stateless, in which case scaling it should be a breeze! One of the easiest ways to provide common session state for a small cluster (very dependant on load and hardware specs, but ~10 servers max, per state server), is to use the built-in ASP.NET State Service. It's a free service that's installed alongside the .NET Framework on all Windows servers. While the InProc session storage is stored directly in the w3wp process,...

I'm finally sitting in the train on my way home from the Airport and an excellent week spent in Nashville, also known as Nash Vegas. First of all, major kudos go out to John Kellar (@johnkellar) and the rest of the devLINK team. I still can't believe the amazing quality of devLINK as a conference, the speaker lineup, food, party, etc, all for a price of just $75! From what I gathered, there were only three international participants at devLINK this year, including me and @KasperVesth - if devLINK continues its current path, I'm sure there'll be plenty more...