Enhancing web performance with the Strangeloop AS1000.

1. Web Performance Acceleration
with Strangeloop AS1000
Thomas Stensitzki
1. European Day of DotNetNuke @ Paris - Session 159

2. Thomas Stensitzki
• Senior Consultant at iCOMcept GmbH, Aachen
– www.icomcept.de
– Microsoft Gold Partner
– SPLA Hosting Provider
• MCITP, Enterprise Administrator, Exchange 2007 & 2010
• MCTS, Sharepoint 2007, Virtualization, BDD
• MCPD, ASP.NET 3.5
• Founder .NET Usergroup Aachen (OecherCoder, www.oechercoder.net)
• Member European DotNetNuke Professionals
• Blog: http://www.sf-tools.net
• E-Mail: thomas.stensitzki@icomcept.de
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3. Strangeloop AS1000
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4. Overview
Company Strangeloop Networks - Vancouver, Canada (2006)
Product Strangeloop AS1000™ Application Scaling Appliance
Clients
Awards
Best in Optimization 2009
www.networkproductsguide.com
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5. The Challenge of Dynamic Web Applications
Web 2.0 : Dynamic Web Applications
Collaboration
Apps
Web Services
User Created
Content
Interactive
Personalized
Real-time
data
Wikis
Video
Brochure Voice
Web 1.0: Static Web Sites sites
Rich applications place new, unmet performance demands on IT infrastructure
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6. Front-End Performance Challenge
10~20% of the load time is spent on the back-end
80~90% of the load time is spent on the front-end.
Front-End
Performance Challenges $ Spent on Performance
Back-end
Front-end Back-end
Bandwidth Front-end
Servers Bandwidth
CDN CDN
Front-End
Empty Cache Primed Cache
www.wikipedia.org 82% 80%
www.microsoft.com 75% 72%
www.yahoo.com 86% 81%
www.cnn.com 85% 82%
www.facebook.com/ 97% 96%
www.aol.com 92% 85%
www.nytimes.com 72% 68%
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7. Solving the Performance Challenge
Development approach
Strangeloop AS1000
+ Tried and true optimization Strangeloop AS1000 IT / Network approach
techniques + Offload tasks to network
+ Lever software /platform Optimize applications + Predictable, measurable
features automatically, in real time, ROI
- Hand tune components, with a network device - No knowledge of
pages, code for application or data
performance status
- No knowledge of user
- Demands rare and costly
development resources
Joining optimization techniques with a network device to change how
applications are developed and deployed
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8. Solution for Front-End Performance Problem
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9. Demo
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10. Strangeloop – Dynamic Choreography Engine
Pipeline Manager
In Memory Database
Pipeline Mirrors & Data Replication with High Availability
Dynamic Choreography Engine
Application Network Browser
- Facing - Based - Facing
Treatments Treatments Treatments
Web Browsers
Applications c
Configuration Analysis
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11. Deployment Options
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12. Strangeloop Application Acceleration Treatments
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13. Strangeloop AS1000 Additional Features
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14. Http Compression
Automatic Compression
Web Servers
 Client Aware Compression
 Adaptive Compression
 No End-User Agents
• Gzip, Deflate
Client Browser
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15. RCache
Web Servers
 Pre-Compressed Content
 Static / Dynamic Content Caching
 Multi-Store Caching
Clients request contents
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16. Predictive Browser Caching
 Intelligent Pre-Fetching
 Browser Idle Time Fetching
political.aspx 435
BuildASign Home Political Signs colbert.aspx 158 Yard Template
signs.aspx 130
wallet.aspx 42
bumpers.aspx 75
nation.aspx 17
banners.aspx 26
lincoln.aspx 13
magnetics.aspx 15
roberts.aspx 6
accessories 8
signs.aspx 3
all.aspx 7
all.aspx 1
buildasign.aspx 0
Political Sign & Template
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17. Connection Maxomizer
 Maximising TCP Connection
Clients
Web Strangeloop AS1000
Applications
Internet
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18. Image Consolidation
Real Time Browser Based Image Consolidation
 Different techniques based on browsers Web Servers
Multiple
Images
Single
Image
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19. JavaScript & CSS Consolidation
Intelligent JavaScript and CSS Consolidation
Web Servers
 Adaptive Consolidation
• JavaScript and CSS Consolidation based
on browser
Client Browser
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20. ASP.Net ViewState
Automated Tokenization for ASP.NET ViewState
ViewState
(ViewState)
Server
ViewState
Automatic ViewState
Removal & Re-Insert
Client
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21. Multiple Hosting Services
Strangeloop AS1000 192.168.10.101
Internet 192.168.10.102
Clients 192.168.10.103
VIP : 10.10.10.11
www.strangeloop.com 192.168.10.101
192.168.10.102
192.168.10.103
blog.strangeloop.com 192.168.11.101 192.168.11.101
192.168.11.102 192.168.11.102
192.168.11.103 192.168.11.103
Domain Name Server
10.10.10.11 www.strangeloop.com
10.10.10.11 blog.strangeloop.com Web Servers
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22. UI
Overview Diagnosis
Configuration High Availability
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23. AS1000 Appliance - Models
AS1000 Basic AS1000 AS1000 Enterprise
Single Dual Core Single Quad Core Dual Quad Core
CPU
Zeon 5500 Zeon 5500 Zeon 5500
Memory 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB
Network 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet
HDD 80G 160G 160G
Profile 1U 1U 2U
SSL CPS 5,000 15,000 24,000
SSL Throughput 500 Mbps 1Gbps 1Gbps
Max Concurrent
32,000 100,000 250,000
Connection
HTTP Requests &
4,000 TPS 10,000 TPS 20,000 TPS
Responses
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24. AS1000 Virtual Appliance
Benefits Of Virtual Deployment
A virtual AS1000 deployment carries with it the benefits of
virtual environments, which include:
 Ease of deployment without any network interruption,
rewiring, or impact
 Use of existing resources and available processing
resources
 Increased hardware utilization
 Decrease in costs, including hardware, power consumption,
cooling, and operational expenses
 Scalability and elasticity
Platform Supported OS OS Version
VMWare Infrastructure 3 Yes ESX 3.0 (3.0.0+)
VMWare vSphere 4 Yes ESX 4.0 (4.0.0+)
XenServer Yes XenServer 5.5
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25. Sirius Benefit Plans (Canada)
Performance Challenge
• With large numbers of participants
simultaneously using their online benefits
management application, Sirius Benefit Plans has
application performance as a top
priority.
Solution
• The Strangeloop AS1000 improves the
performance and scalability of dynamic Web
applications by intelligently reading requests and
applying ASP.NET and AJAX software
optimization techniques in the network.
Benefits
• Serve 300% more simultaneous participants
• 64% bandwidth savings across all pages
• Over 260 hour savings of end-user time per
month
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26. Millennium Pharmacy (USA)
Performance Challenge
• Ensure that a data-intensive application
delivers consistently fast response times
• Reduce time spent on performance
optimization
• Focus on developing competitive new
service features
Solution
• Deploy Strangeloop AS1000 to minimize
data traffic and accelerate application
performance
Benefits
• Improved developer productivity
• More development resources for new
feature development
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27. Autoanything.com (USA)
Goals
• Maximize Revenue
• Increase User Satisfaction
Solution
• Strangeloop AS1000 Network Appliance
Results
• 33% increase in revenue
• 8% increase in conversion rate
• 5% reduction in bounce rate
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28. Disaboom (USA)
Business
• Online interactive community for people with
disabilities
• > 76,000 subscribers
• > 600,000 visitors / month in October
• # of visitors doubled from July to October
Performance Challenge
• Small IT staff
• Need to deliver new features and make sure
application scales
• > 7% of users on dial-up
• Expect continued growth
Results
• Reduced payload by 50%, perceptibly
improving user response times
• Offloaded servers significantly
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29. The Future
Personalized Optimization
By User and Flow
Each browser and browser version
is different and must be optimized
differently
Mobile
Optimization
Real Time
Behaviour
Heuristics
Auto Browser Detect
and Optimization
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AS1000 Automatically
Optimizes for the Mobile Web
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30. Q&A
DE: webbooster.de
EN: strangeloopnetworks.com
European inquiries: info@webbooster.de
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