Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Scalability and Performances

Scalability is basically the capability of an application to well serve requests without getting too slow or crashing when the amount of work increases. As described before, in a single user environment such as desktop applications, scalability is a plus but not a requirement whereas it is in a web environment, where multiple requests can come to a web page. Because you do not want your application to get too slow or to crash when a big number of simultaneous requests come, whereas you instead want requests to be served in a small amount of time, you need to be aware of scalability and performances. Luckily ASP.NET has its own mechanism that serves for applications scalability and that we now describe. Think of desktop ...