Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario

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The recent post about performance of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex protocol pointed out scalability challenges associated with deploying a WCF service using the protocol in a web farm scenario. This follow up article introduces one possible solution to the scale-out problem, enabling applications utilizing the protocol to accommodate an arbitrary number of concurrent clients through scale-out of the backend infrastructure.

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Tomasz Janczuk
Development Manager
WCF Team