As blogged by Harry Pierson and Larry Osterman , Herb Sutter has written a great article on how major processor manufacturers and architectures have run out of room with most of their traditional approaches to boosting CPU performance. This is a must read! As pointed out by Herb, the great growth in...

Server Performance Advisor can be found here . It was released a few days ago. <Extract> Overview Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system...

I know others have blogged about this (including dbox , ricom , jasonz ) and its been out for a few weeks now, but hey it is a must read. It's over 1100 pages of good stuff for everyone, topics covered include, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML Web Services, Enterprise Services and lots more, Improving .NET Application...