I just had an article published in the Visual Studio Magazine January 2009 Issue on the ASP.NET MVC framework. The direct link to the article is here: http://visualstudiomagazine... One correction is that the “About the Author” section at the bottom of the article is out of date since I am no longer employed at e.magination. I am now with Applied Information Sciences (AIS) and can be reached either through this blog or at steve.michelotti@gmail.com ......
In the past couple of years, I had the unique opportunity to lead of team of developers building one of the highest (if not THE highest) volume .NET application in the world. With more than 3 billion requests per day and an SLA of 99.99% of requests under 250ms, we had some exciting challenges. Because the application was so performance intensive, we heavily utilized a huge in-memory cache. Because of the size of our cache, we had some interesting challenges to overcome with .NET garbage collection ......