ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets [Paperback]

Matt Perdeck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2010

Written in a practical and clear conversational style, this book is filled with real-life website performance scenarios. It is replete with lots of working code samples and practical advice, and just the right amount of theory you need to make sense of it all. This book is written for ASP.NET/SQL Server-based website developers who want to speed up their site using simple, proven tactics without going through a lot of unnecessary theoretical learning. If your website isn't performing well, this is the ideal book for you.

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About the Author

Matt Perdeck

Matt Perdeck has over 20 years experience developing high-performance software systems, ranging from the largest ATM network in the Netherlands to embedded software in advanced Wide Area Networks. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Technology Twente, the Netherlands, and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Australia and Copenhagen Business School. He has worked in Australia, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Thailand. He has extensive .NET and SQL Server development experience and has written several .NET articles. As an old-school software engineer, he is passionate about making things faster, simpler, and more efficiently.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (October 13, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1849690685
• ISBN-13: 978-1849690683
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,217,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical guide and reference book for performance-minded professionals, October 1, 2011

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Vadim Kleyzit (New York metropolitan area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets (Paperback)

Term "ASP.NET performance" returns more than 60,000 results on Google search. If you need to learn how to develop fast ASP.NET websites, it's easy to get lost in the ocean of articles, instructions, and blogs. ASP.NET Performance Secrets makes this task much easier.

The book is not just a collection of tips and secrets; it rather describes a systematic approach to optimizing websites. Book content is a workflow of the optimization process. It lists the areas that performance-minded developers need to bear in mind to improve speed of webpages.

It starts from diagnostic, then goes into areas such as optimizing memory, CPU, caching, and reducing time to first and last byte, and then covers more advanced topics such as threading and load testing. It also describes techniques helpful to keep any websites fast (not only ASP.net) such as optimizing javascript, images, database and compression.

While beginners may want to read the entire book as a practical guide, it also can be used as a reference book. It is well organized and every chapter can be read independently. I keep this book handy and return to the chapters that I need for particular projects.

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually Helps With More Than ASP.NET, August 3, 2011

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Jerry W. Odom Jr. "The only bad beer is no beer." (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets (Paperback)

Many of the SQL tuning tips apply to any sort of application that runs on SQL Server. What's more the author makes it easy for regular software developers to understand especially in regards to index creation.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book on improving the performance of your ASP.NET web site., March 25, 2011

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Joseph Guadagno ".NET Developer" (Chandler, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASP.NET Site Performance Secrets (Paperback)

When I first got this book I thought it was going to be a compilation of tips and tricks. I was quite surprised with the fact that it really wasn't. The author starts out by telling you how you to determine the bottlenecks in your site then goes into a lot of samples on how to correct and / or improve them. He covers memory, CPU, caching, compression and more.

This book is definitely worth a read then a reread every once in a while. I plan on implementing some of the suggestions for my sites.