Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting

Summary

The data tier will make or break most distributed applications. This chapter considered some principles that no distributed programmer can afford to ignore, including connection pooling, caching, and optimization. All of these techniques are useful ingredients in the programmer’s toolbox, but it’s not always obvious when you should use them. As with any performance-optimization strategy, the only way to gauge the value of a change is to perform stress testing and profiling. Without this step, you might spend a great deal of time perfecting code that will achieve only a minor improvement in performance or scalability, at the expense of more effective changes. Chapter 14 introduces the art and science of profiling.

Finally, every programmer ...