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Dan Farino About MySpace’s Architecture

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.NET,
Architecture
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Performance & Scalability,
Enterprise Architecture,
.NET Framework,
Configuration Management

In this interview taken by InfoQ’s Ryan Slobojan, Dan Farino, Chief Systems Architect at MySpace, talks about the system architecture and the challenges faced when building a very large online community. Because MySpace is built almost entirely on the .NET Framework, Dan explains how a .NET product scales on hundreds of servers.

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IIS URL Rewriting vs ASP.NET Routing

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.NET
Topics
Web Frameworks,
.NET Framework

With the release and press around IIS7 URL Rewriting, many questions have been raised about the interplay between IIS Rewriting and ASP.NET Routing. How do the two features relate to each other and when should each be used?

In Case You Missed It: IIS7 URL-Rewrite is Live

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.NET
Topics

Microsoft has released its long overdue URL rewriter module for IIS 7 under a "Go Live" license. Generally speaking this means they feel the code base is stable enough for production use, but still not quite done in an official sense.

Presentation: Windows as a Web Platform

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.NET
Topics
Application Servers,
Web Servers

Eric Nelson provides an architectural deep dive into the internals of IIS and the .NET Framework 3.5 with a goal of reducing the lines of code in web applications.

PowerShell for IIS

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.NET
Topics

The push for making Windows configurable from the command line continues with the IIS 7 PowerShell Provider.

Automatically Route Requests to Content Servers using IIS 7

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.NET
Topics

Microsoft is demonstrating a new routing module for IIS 7. This module automatically routes requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables as well as load balancing concerns such as server health and affinity.

.NET Framework Versions: Marketing vs. Reality

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.NET
Topics
.NET Framework

Since .NET Framework 3.0 Microsoft's versioning strategy confuses the community. Scott Hanselman explains the how and why of the drift between marketing and reality.

Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2 and IIS 7

Community
.NET
Topics
Web Frameworks

Version 7 brings a major rewrite to Internet Information Server. The most important of these revolves around the new integrated mode, which allows .NET modules to be plugged into any stage of the IIS pipeline. However, when running ASP.NET in integrated mode reveals several breaking changes.

Microsoft Ups Their Support for PHP

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.NET
Topics
Web Frameworks

PHP is a cornerstone of LAMP development. In an attempt to lure PHP developers off Linux and MySQL, Microsoft is beginning to offer deep support for PHP in IIS 7 and SQL Server.