On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:03:21 -0400, csnyder wrote > On 5/22/07, Cliff Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
