Solving the ASP.NET Performance Challenge
Many enterprises believe the key to increased application performance is optimizing the network by adding servers, more network capacity and traditional static application acceleration devices. While these measures provide some gain, ASP.NET applications have some inherent bottlenecks that cannot be removed by increasing server or network capacity. Traditional acceleration devices are incorporating limited static caching features which offload the server, but they lack the dynamic features needed to fully exploit browser caching, and the visibility of the application and the data lookups to offload the application. Rules-based caching cannot optimize highly dynamic unpredictable content.
The Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance is an innovative solution that brings together the power of caching and data management techniques with the speed and agility of an intelligent network device, a device that can optimize in real-time.
The key to this real-time optimization is what we call Dynamic Choreography—ensuring the right data is in the right place at the right time and that unnecessary transfers are reduced. Dynamic Choreography combines real-time visibility and learning from application behavior with caching treatments to implement specific ASP.NET optimization features in real-time. The AS1000 can call on the ASP.NET application, its database, the browser and the AS1000 appliance’s own high performance cache to choreograph the data flow. The Strangeloop AS1000 Application Scaling Appliance implements these changes without changing the code, the servers, the network infrastructure or the behavior of the application. By applying Choreography treatments in-line, in real-time, the Strangeloop AS1000 appliance can immediately respond to increasing and unpredictable demands on dynamic web applications.
