Server farms achieve high scalability and high availability through server load balancing, a technique that makes the server farm appear to clients as a single server. In this two-part article, Gregor ...

The transport-level server load balancing architectures described in the first half of this article are more than adequate for many Web sites, but more complex and dynamic sites can’t depend on them.

ASP.NET has become a highly popular technology for developing Web applications. A large number of these ASP.NET applications need to scale to accommodate the growing number of transactions and traffic ...

Many enterprise organizations are talking to IT staff about moving into the cloud environment and/or using virtual machines to take advantage of greater scalability. Being able to access more ...

Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...

In these complimentary chapters from O’Reilly, you will explore the essential ingredients of designing scalable solutions, including replication, state management, load balancing, and caching.

In today’s digital economy, high-scale applications must perform flawlessly, even during peak demand periods. With modern caching strategies, organizations can deliver high-speed experiences at scale.

Microsoft has unveiled a distributed in-memory application cache platform it says will boost the performance and scalability of .NET apps. The company describes the server -- dubbed Project "Velocity" ...

Ensuring peak performance and rock‑solid security isn’t optional – it’s essential. Many deploy NetScaler simply as a Citrix gateway or basic load balancer, but beneath the surface lies a suite of ...