Chapter 10 — Improving Web Services Performance
J.D. Meier, Srinath Vasireddy, Ashish Babbar, and Alex Mackman
Microsoft Corporation
May 2004
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Chapter 5, "Improving Managed Code Performance"
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Summary: This chapter focuses on design guidelines and techniques, such as state management, asynchronous invocation, serialization, threading, to help you develop efficient Web services. This chapter also presents a formula for reducing thread contention and HTTP connections to increase the throughput for your Web services.
Contents
Objectives
Overview
How to Use This Chapter
Architecture
Prescriptive Guidance for Web Services, Enterprise Services, and .NET Remoting
Performance and Scalability Issues
Design Considerations
Implementation Considerations
Connections
Threading
One-Way (Fire-and-Forget) Communication
Asynchronous Web Methods
Asynchronous Invocation
Timeouts
WebMethods
Serialization
Caching
State Management
Bulk Data Transfer
Attachments
COM Interop
Measuring and Analyzing Web Services Performance
