ServerSide

Its been a few months since the release of LeanServer ScaleUP, a high-performance upload engine for ASP.NET and other IIS 7.0 applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform.   One of the things that has been interesting is how many people have trouble with uploads - and how varied their challenges really are. While we initially built ...

The upload support in the Microsoft web platform has come quite a long way since the early days of IIS. Unfortunately, a number of remaining limitations have made it difficult to offer a quality upload experience, especially for high-traffic sites. As more and more websites rely on user generated content, and in general storing data in the ...

In the last 6 months, LeanServer has deployed several high performance web technologies with some of the biggest names in the web.  It’s been a very intense ride, but totally worth it when seeing the impact we can have in a large-scale web environment - and the grins on the faces of people running it.  As we approach our first ...

Things have been pretty hectic.  Although I haven't blogged about this much, I've been working on LeanServer, a new company I started last year.  LeanServer is a technical expert in scalability and performance for very large web sites, with multiple technologies and tools aimed at making these sites scale and significantly ...