Velocity Benchmarking White Paper

Scaling .NET Web Applications with Microsoft's Project Code-named "Velocity"

Abstract: Grid Dynamics created three sample applications, designed to be typical use cases of Microsoft’s highly scalable in-memory cache―the project code-named “Velocity”―and ran extensive benchmarking tests to evaluate their performance characteristics. The applications were a blogging engine, demonstrating the most basic features of Velocity caching technology; a simple e-commerce website, demonstrating Velocity’s capabilities for managing session state, and; a market data application, demonstrating Velocity’s event processing capabilities. Building these applications with the Velocity project’s in-memory application cache platform achieved superior, linear scalability when compared to the same applications built without Velocity. This paper presents the detailed results of these experiments, describes how the features of Velocity can be used in a real world application, and also offers a comparative evaluation of the important features of a few application-scaling middleware packages, including Velocity.

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