This was an awesome read!
If you are an intermediate developer, this book has everything you need to know to grow and become an advanced developer and eventually an architect. Not only that, you will be able to learn how to build and maintain your own production web solutions all by yourself.
This book has so far the best collection of performance and scalability optimization techniques. Majority of the techniques are very unique, not found in any other book or website.
Although I partially agree with Bart on his comment about texts already available in blog and codeproject, but I disagree on some points:
- It's perfectly normal to start a topic on a blog and then eventually enrich it from user feedback and write an article or book out of it. Books or articles generally have polished, much elaborated description and lessions from past mistakes and user feedback. The author has done the same. When I see his blog posts or articles, they are somewhat shortcuts, not in detail, full of holes. But the book surely shows sign of experience on each topic.
- The 10 ASP.NET article he mentioned came out after the book was published and actually has two unique techniques that's missing in both blog and book. The article is basically an aggregation of blog posts author made earlier.
- Despite the information already available in his articles and blog, the first 5 chapters, especially the whole Chapter 7 is surely unique in the book. The remaining chapters are also well elaborated and shows authors experience from his research and blog post. All of them surely makes the book worth the money.
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