Archive for the 'Performance' Category

Performance of Generics SortedDictionary and Dictionary

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Based on a Vladimir Bodurov blog post on IDictionary options – performance test – SortedList vs. SortedDictionary vs. Dictionary vs. Hashtable, it seems to indicate that SortedDictionary is slower during inserts as compared to Dictionary but faster during searching.
However during the course of my development in ASP.NET 3.5, there have been several occasions which seems [...]

Performance Programming with ASP.NET C#

Monday, February 16th, 2009

It is easy to develop using ASP.NET, you can have a web application with database operations up in less than half an hour. But this ease of development comes at the expense of several performance hits.

Viewstate
Web sites are stateless by design, which means that anything you have on the page is not retained when you [...]

Performance Programming with ASP.NET Ajax

Monday, February 9th, 2009

At first glance, ajax seems to be a cinch with asp.net 3.5, what with all the updatepanel, timers and such. However behind this ease of development hides a danger which most developers may not notice.
Although updatepanels and timers are easy to use, each update triggers a complete postback and if your viewstate is on the [...]

Achieving 99.99% Uptime

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Right from the beginning, Nexus is built with high redundancy and high security without compromising on user experience. This boils down to 2 main areas

System Architecture
The system architecture for Nexus ensures that it can easily achieve 99.99% and above uptime, with ease of scaling at minimal effort.
Below is the system diagram for the infrastructure in [...]