InfoQ

Presentation

Recorded at:
Recorded at

Architecting Toronto.com with ASP.NET

Posted by Scott Howlett on Oct 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Community
.NET,
Architecture
Topics
Performance & Scalability,
.NET Framework
Tags
Microsoft,
ASP.NET,
Casestudy,
C#,
Photos & Video
Summary
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 unique visitors per month, and offers comprehensive and searchable access to business and event listings. Originally built in 1997, the Java/J2EE technology foundation for the site was expensive and time-consuming to maintain, and limited TorStar Digital's ability to share content and functionality between Toronto.Com and other properties.

Bio
Scott Howlett is a Principal and Founding Partner at imason inc. in Toronto, Canada. With lots of in-the-trenches development experience, Scott now focuses the majority of his time in leading development teams through the design and build phases for critical line-of-business applications. He uses a unique blend of proven best-practices and innovative approaches to address complex problems.

About the conference

Related Sponsor

Terracotta is Scalability and Availability for Java Applications. It clusters the JVM itself, which dramatically simplifies development and reduces database dependency.

No comments

Reply

Exclusive Content

Rationalizing the Presentation Tier

Thin client paradigm characterized by web applications is a kludge that needs to be repudiated. Old compromises are no longer needed and it's time to move the presentation tier to where it belongs.

Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google

In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Jeff Sutherland, the creator of Scrum, talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum.

AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry introduce AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera, which is now available as open source.

An Introduction to Virtualization

It is easy to think that virtualization applies only to servers. In reality the recent resurgence of the concept is also being applied to networking, storage, and application infrastructure.

REST Anti-Patterns

In this article, Stefan Tilkov explains some of the most common anti-patterns found in applications that claim to follow a "RESTful" design and suggests ways to avoid them.

Choosing between Routing and Orchestration in an ESB

In this article, Adrien Louis and Marc Dutoo discuss the differences and relative merits of using orchestration vs. routing in a typical ESB setup, and discuss various implementation options.

Enterprise Batch Processing with Spring

Wayne Lund discusses batch processing, Spring Batch objectives and features, scenarios for usage, Spring Batch architecture, scaling, example code, failures and retrying, and the future roadmap.

User Story Estimation Techniques

Developer Jay Fields draws on his experiences as a ThoughtWorks consultant to describe effective user story estimation techniques.