Lately I have been reading and working on performance and security. It reminded me of the value of Visual Studio and Fiddler and their extensions.

As you may know I love the work the Patterns & Practices do, such as the Application Architecture guide. Next to the apparch guide, J.D. Meier and the others have created and gathered great info on performance and security. The content may contain some aged pages, but don’t let that put you off: concepts and principles of performance and security, or any other non-functional area, remain current and applicable. Still it is good to know that Windows Azure gets its own security guidance.

While I am promoting J.D.’s work, why not take a look at his recent Getting Results material. It is a great source of inspiration for me and points out clearly what to do more and what to do less. And it is very easy to start performance tuning yourself too…