The Downsides of ASP.NET Session State

http://tech-journals.com/jonow/2011/10/22/the-downsides-of-asp-net-session-state

by default the ASP.NET pipeline will not process requests belonging to the same session concurrently. It serialises them, i.e. it queues them in the order that they were received so that they are processed serially rather than in parallel. 

When does Application_Start get called in ASP.NET?

First time running
Or
Web.config was changed

The Dangers of Implementing Recurring Background Tasks In ASP.NET

http://haacked.com/archive/2011/10/16/the-dangers-of-implementing-recurring-background-tasks-in-asp-net.aspx

Optimize your website using ASP.NET and IIS8

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-837T

A Toast to C

http://jasonvictordartmouth.posterous.com/a-toast-to-c

" But when it comes to high-performant computation, there's just nothing like C"

"it is relatively paradigm-free"