Chapter 12. Performance

In the previous chapter, we covered the most important security issues related to the Top 10 OWASP initiative, whose goal is, in their own words "to raise awareness about application security by identifying some of the most critical risks facing organizations".

In this chapter, we're going to review the most common issues that a developer encounters in relation to an application's performance, and we'll also look at which techniques and tips are commonly suggested in order to obtain flexible, responsive, and well-behaved software, with a special emphasis on web performance. We will cover the following topics:

• Reviewing the concepts behind performance (Application Performance Engineering)

• We'll look at some of the most interesting tools that we have available in Visual Studio to measure and tune performance, including IntelliTrace and new options, such as PerfTips and Diagnostic Tools

• We will also check some of the most useful possibilities available in popular modern...