NYCPHP Meetup

[Cliff Hirsch]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:03:21 -0400, csnyder wrote
> On 5/22/07, Cliff Hirsch <cliff at pinestream.com> wrote:
> 
> > sounds like smoke and mirrors or just caching. But its way more than that.
> 
> Caching is more effective than smoke or mirrors. But okay, what is 
> it? Caching + load balancing? Gzip compression? Philosopher's stone 
> on-a-chip?
> 
Yes, yes, yes

It does a whole bunch of things. There is an agent of the asp.net server, so
the appliance can collect a lot of data and set a bunch of things. Apparently,
asp.net includes this monster (like 100Kish) viewset hidden variable in each
page -- sort of a piggish client-side session. The appliance can strip that
out, since its not necessary.

Most asp.net pages are not browse cached either. The appliance can change this
dynamically and intelligently. It can compress where necessary, serve static
content, even figure out what database queries can be cached and tell the
asp.net server to do so since asp.net is tightly integrated with sqlserver.

asp.net assume a dumb programmer, which creates a lot of bloat. The appliance
can intelligently strip a lot of this out.