Book Description
Microsoft Application Center 2000 is a suite of tools designed to make it easy to build, manage, and monitor multiple-server web sites and web application platforms. Its main features include: simple-to-implement scalability, automated high availability, automatic synchronization of content and configuration, simple deployment of COM+ applications, and single-point monitoring of individual machines and the cluster overall.
This book shows how you can use Application Center to make your web sites more scalable, more robust, more reliable, and easier to maintain. It looks at the configuration and administration options you need get started, and gives examples of how to build pages, components, and whole applications that take advantage of Application Center's capabilities. Also discussed are issues such as testing your sites and applications, and measuring the loads that they can support.
About the Author
Alex Homer is a software developer and technical author living and working in the idyllic rural surroundings of the Derbyshire Dales in the heart of England. He took to the Internet like a brick takes to water. You know the feeling - one minute you're dipping your toe in to test the water, and the next minute you're sinking fast under a sea of new technologies, new standards, and new ideas. And all this with an old brain. Maybe one day the pace of development in the Internet word will slow down. Maybe one day he'll catch up. Maybe one day, fish will ride bicycles. You can contact Alex at alex@stonebroom.com.
Matthew Odhner is a Program Manager on the Application Center team. He joined Microsoft in 1993 and managed the development of the Web Application Stress tool while working as a test lead in the Microsoft IT department. Matt is now managing the development of a new Web stress tool and capacity planning products that help developers and administrators gather performance information and make predictions on future load requirements. In his free time Matt likes playing drums in a local Seattle rock band.
David Sussman is a full time author specializing in data access and Internet technologies. When not writing he spends most of his time playing with alpha and beta technologies, or dreaming about the house he hopes to build. It'll have tall rooms so he can juggle without denting the ceiling.
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