TechTalk on Scalability & Availability using NLB and IIS ARR

As promised during my TechTalk today at Microsoft Denmark, here are the links to all slides and demo code. Unfortunately you'll not be able to download the VPC's as those total around 30GB.

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Fixing Flash bugs and intercepting IIS Application Request Routing cookies

What does Flash, upload, cookies, IIS load balancing and cookies have to do with each others? More than I'd like :(

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Making the ASP.NET State Service work across network

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!

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Resource URLs and their effect on client side caching

One of the best way to improve performance of any website is to reduce the load from clients by allowing them to cache resources. There are various ways to ensure we utilize client side caching to the fullest extent, an often overlooked parameter however, is the actual URL for the resource we want to cache.

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Using Squid as a reverse proxy with a .NET url rewriter

Once you start receiving visitors from all over the world, a new kind of scaling issue arise. It's not a matter of adding more servers to the cluster or optimizing code (we'll assume these factors are perfect), it's a simple matter of geography and mathematics. Serving code from one end of the world to the other will take time, no matter how quick your servers are handling the request. The speed of light suddenly seems quite slow.

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Using Network Load Balancing for Availability & Scalability

There are two primary reasons for venturing into the realms of clustering/load balancing - availability & scalability. In this post I'll give a quick demo of how to setup Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Server 2003 and how it affects the availability of a web application.

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