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ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance - Second Edition

By : James Singleton
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ASP.NET Core 2 High Performance - Second Edition

By: James Singleton

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2 framework is used to develop high-performance and cross-platform web applications. It is built on .NET Core 2 and includes significantly more framework APIs than version 1. This book addresses high-level performance improvement techniques. It starts by showing you how to locate and measure problems and then shows you how to solve some of the most common ones. Next, it shows you how to get started with ASP.NET Core 2 on Windows, Mac, Linux, and with Docker containers. The book illustrates what problems can occur as latency increases when deploying to a cloud infrastructure. It also shows you how to optimize C# code and choose the best data structures for the job. It covers new features in C# 6 and 7, along with parallel programming and distributed architectures. By the end of this book, you will be fixing latency issues and optimizing performance problems, but you will also know how this affects the complexity and maintenance of your application. Finally, we will explore a few highly advanced techniques for further optimization.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
3
Setting Up Your Environment
4
Measuring Performance Bottlenecks

Testing


Testing is essential to producing high-quality and well-performing software. The secret to productive testing is to make it easy, reliable, and routine. If testing is difficult or tests regularly fail because of issues unrelated to the software (for example, environmental problems), then tests will not be performed or the results will be ignored. This will cause you to miss genuine problems and ship bugs that you could have easily avoided.

There are many different varieties of testing, and you may be familiar with the more common cases used for functional verification. In this book, we will mainly focus on tests pertaining to performance. However, the advice here is applicable to many types of testing.

Automated testing

As mentioned previously, the key to improving almost everything is automation. Tests that are only run manually on developer workstations add very little value. Of course, it should be possible to run the tests on desktops, but this shouldn't be the official result because...