Designing Scalable .NET Applications

THERE's NO DOUBT IN MY MIND that the two authors of this book, Joachim Rossberg and Rickard Redler, share a wealth of knowledge about the options Microsoft offers enterprises willing to create applications on the .NET platform. In this book, they share that wealth of knowledge with the rest of us. The greatest value from this book probably comes from the higher priorities given to the breadth than to the depth of the book's different subjects. Its perspec- tive is that of the strategic architect rather than that of the programmer. This is also the expressed purpose of its authors; in the book's introduction, they clearly state that the book is focused on design rather than diving deep into specifics. True to this statement, the content of the book spans a wide collection of subjects, including technologies as disparate as content management, Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object Role Modeling (ORM), Wmdows Operating System versions, Network Load Balancing (NLB), Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), Internet Information Services (liS), and SQL Server. Having said that, I must also say that some of the book's chapters do in fact include surprising levels of detail. This is especially true in Chapter 4, which covers architecture, scalability, availability, and security of the Wmdows Server family, as well as Chapter 7, which is about Internet Information Services.