Network operations

As the world is progressing toward the SaaS application's paradigm, it is imperative to pay close attention to network utilization of your program. In this typical client-server architecture, in many cases, every event is processed on the server side and the data constantly flows over the wire, across the oceans, miles away from its origin. On top of this, the world is becoming impatient regarding speed and performance. With the advent of social media and the love of video and photo sharing, data usage has sky rocketed and is using up almost all the bandwidth a user can get. Hence, it is extremely important to use network resources as efficiently as possible.

In order to squeeze every possible performance gain from the available network resources, we need to implement various strategies and design patterns. This section will highlight some of the new additions...