On referring to all the previous chapters, you will be able to develop your website as per requirements. However, will this be enough? The answer is no. The site will surely demand to be more proficient with the help of more security, scalability, and performance tuning, which will always be a never-ending demand for any site.
This chapter will cover many unavoidable tasks that make your site secure. You will also see performance tuning techniques and tactics that you can apply to a Sitecore solution, ASP.NET, and IIS. Being fallible, an application or web server will have limitations to get an optimized performance all the time with high uptime. So, in such cases, the scalability of your Sitecore instance comes into the picture. We will cover scaling the Sitecore web servers and databases efficiently to get high uptime during application or hardware crash and even during deployments as well.