This guide provides end-to-end guidance for managing performance and scalability throughout your application life cycle to reduce risk and lower total cost of ownership. It provides a framework that organizes performance into a handful of prioritized categories where your choices heavily impact performance and scalability success. The logical units of the framework help integrate performance throughout your application life cycle. Information is segmented by roles, including architects, developers, testers, and administrators, to make it more relevant and actionable. This guide provides processes and actionable steps for modeling performance, measuring, testing, and tuning your applications. Expert guidance is also provided for improving the performance of managed code, ASP.NET, Enterprise Services, Web services, remoting, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server.
This guide covers Microsoft's recommendations on how to build .NET applications that meet your performance objectives. The guidelines in this guide applies to various roles involved in the life cycle, including architects, designers, developers, testers, and administrators.
The guidance is organized by categories, principles, roles, and stages of the life cycle:
This guide covers Microsoft's recommendations on how to build .NET applications that meet your performance objectives. The guidelines in this guide applies to various roles involved in the life cycle, including architects, designers, developers, testers, and administrators.
The guidance is organized by categories, principles, roles, and stages of the life cycle:
- Performance objectives enable you to know when your application meets your performance goals.
- Performance modeling provides a structured and repeatable approach to meeting your performance objectives.
- Architecture and design guidelines enable you to engineer for performance from an early stage.
- A performance and scalability frame enables you to organize and prioritize performance issues.
- Measuring lets you see whether your application is trending toward or away from the performance objectives.
Part I, Introduction to Engineering for Performance
This part shows you how to apply performance considerations throughout your application life cycle and introduces fundamental performance and scalability concepts and terminology.
Part II, Designing for Performance
Performance modeling helps you assess your design choices before committing to a solution. By considering from the start your performance objectives, workload, and metrics for your scenarios, you reduce risk. Use the design guidelines chapter to learn practices, principles, patterns, and anti-patterns that will help you to make informed choices.
Part III, Application Performance and Scalability
This part provides a series of chapters that provide deep platform knowledge across the .NET Framework technologies. Use these chapters to learn about the key performance and scalability considerations for the various .NET technologies, and to improve the efficiency of your code in these areas.
Part IV, Database Server Performance and Scalability
This part shows how to improve SQL Server performance.
Part V, Measuring, Testing, and Tuning
This part shows which metrics monitor and analyze for specific performance aspects. It also explains how to load, stress, and capacity test your applications and how you can tune performance with appropriate application, platform, and system configuration.
