Introduction

Introduction

This book was written by members of the Microsoft Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) Team, which provides performance analysis services for some of the most heavily utilized Web applications and sites at Microsoft. Our responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing throughput or response time numbers, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing and tuning Web applications in an enterprise environment to achieve required application performance.

Our mission is to drive performance improvements into Microsoft s production Web applications. We do this by providing performance analysis leadership and world-class tuning services. This book outlines and details our experiences and the methodology we ve developed while working in the dynamic and challenging environment of Microsoft s corporate intranet and extranet infrastructure.