I just discovered why all ASP.Net websites are slow, and I am trying to work out what to do about it

Question

I just discovered that every request in an ASP.Net web application gets a Session lock at the beginning of a request, and then releases it at the end of the request!

Answer 1

After struggling with all available options, I ended up writing a JWT token based SessionStore provider (the session travels inside a cookie, and no backend storage is needed).

http://www.drupalonwindows.com/en/content/token-sessionstate

Advantages:

• Drop-in replacement, no changes to your code are needed
• Scale better than any other centralized store, as no session storage backend is needed.
• Faster than any other session storage, as no data needs to be retrieved from any session storage
• Consumes no server resources for session storage.
• Default non-blocking implementation: concurrent request won't block each other and hold a lock on the session
• Horizontally scale your application: because the session data travels with the request itself you can have multiple web heads without worrying about session sharing.