TFS Proxy Performance Benchmarking

If you’ve ever wondered just how much effect a TFS proxy will have on your TFS performance, the article linked below might help give you some perspective.

I find this information to be very helpful when discussion TFS performance with customers.  Some seem to feel that it’s imperative that a proxy be installed in their environment (this seems to be due to experience with past SCM systems (Rational) that virtually required their multi-site setup to be implemented for remote teams).

I highly encourage you to take a look at this article, which addresses the following points:

Which operations will be executed faster and how much faster, if we use TFS Proxy?

Which operations do not use TFS Proxy at all?

How traffic is shared between the local computer, TFS, and the TFS Proxy servers?

How does the Internet channel rate impact on an operation's execution time?

How do the various TFS Proxy settings impact on an operation's execution time?

Here’s the article link: https://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/TFSProxyEfficiencyTesting.aspx