Creating and Consuming Web Services in Visual Basic®

Benefits of Maintaining State: Performance and Scalability

As a Web Application's user community grows, there is an ever-growing amount of stress placed on the Web Server as it attempts to accommodate this larger volume of calls. As more stress is placed on a Web server, the performance will take a hit. A slow Web Service, like a slow Web site, will not only waste expensive company resources, but it can potentially drive customers away, causing even greater losses. When you design and implement a high-performance Web Service, it is extremely important to carry out performance tuning. There is no set recipe for improving the scalability or the performance of a Web Service. Some tweaking may need to be performed in various places within the Web ...