Is ISAPI still considered the optimal way of building IIS applications?

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We are currently using ISAPI as our prefered way of building scalable high performance high security IIS web server applications.

Assuming that we don't want any .NET or other "helpful" stuff in our systems, is ISAPI still considered the "way to go?"

What I have tried:

Hundreds of applications running great using ISAPI on IIS.

Posted 12-Mar-19 5:46am

davercadman

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F-ES Sitecore 12-Mar-19 12:03pm

Probably not, no.

davercadman 12-Mar-19 12:34pm

What would you recommend?

F-ES Sitecore 12-Mar-19 12:42pm

I'd use .net, but when you have a hammer everything is a nail :) You're not going to get better performance than from an ISAPI app, but you need to balance that against all of the frameworks you are missing out on, and if modern hardware can run your site at an acceptable level of performance using .net then why not? When ISAPI was mainly being used the only alternatives were interpreted languages, but that's changed now.

davercadman 12-Mar-19 13:35pm

Great answer! Thanks!

[no name] 12-Mar-19 12:22pm

It's "low-level".

As for the "way to go", it's the way to go if you "go your own way". It sits beside the one that says "How to write a web server".

davercadman 12-Mar-19 12:36pm

Gerry: What is your favorite "way to go?" for maximum speed?

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