GANG Meeting January 20, 2010

When

From: January 20, 2010 06:30 PM

To: January 20, 2010 08:30 PM

Publication date: September 22, 2009 12:00 AM

Where: Street: 1000 Town Center Drive; City: Southfield; State: Michigan; Country: USA

What

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Title: Mike Amundsen presents "Web Caching for Newbies"

If you are planning to implement a web-based application hosted ""in the Cloud"" you need to consider the cost of running the application. Not only can charges occur based on storage, but also bandwidth and even by the number of requests to the server. In other words, if your application consumes lots of bandwidth or handles lots of repeated requests for the same data, you could be in for a fat bill at the end of the month.
In this session, you'll learn how to use standard HTTP Web caching techniques to limit bandwidth and reduce request traffic while still maintaining a speedy web application for your clients. Unlike typical ""SEO"" techniques, this talk focuses on the coding and design details needed to implement a reliable, responsive dynamic web application that takes best advantage of the latest caching techniques used by Yahoo, Google and others. You learn how to use Validation Caching to cut back on excessive bandwidth usage. You'll also learn how to use Expiration Caching to reduce the number of times clients need to request data from your host servers. You'll also learn how to easily employ compression services on selected resources to reduce the amount of content sent from your servers.
Attendees will get access to all the code samples including helper libraries that work in .NET 2.0/VS2005 and above along with presentation slides.

Speaker: Mike Amundsen

An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen has traveled throughout the United States and Europe speaking and teaching on a wide range of topics including .NET, the Internet, team development, and other subjects. Recently he has been focusing on cloud-computing technologies including the Windows Azure platform. He has more than a dozen books to his credit. His most popular titles are Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual Basic in 21 Days, Using Visual InterDev, and ASP.NET for Developers. He is currently working on a new book focused on HTTP programming using the REST architectural model. When he is not working, Mike spends time with his wife and three children at their home in Kentucky, USA.