Learnings from running Blazor in production
Since Blazor was in preview, we have been running Blazor Server in production. In most cases, everything has run without issues. Occasionally, we encounter a few problems, and I will share those learnings with you in this section.
We will look at the following:
- Solving memory problems
- Solving concurrency problems
- Solving errors
- Old browsers
These are some of the things we ran into, and we have solved them all in a way that works for us.
Solving memory problems
Our latest upgrade did add many users and, with that, a bigger load on the server. The server manages memory quite well, but with this release, the backend system was a bit slow, so users pressed F5 to reload a page. Then, the circuit disconnects, and a new circuit gets created. The old circuit waits for the user to connect to the server again for 3 minutes (by default).
The user now has a new circuit and will never connect to the...
