When is .NET a good option for Software Development?

When should I consider using .NET technology?

.NET Application Development is a popular choice when organisations of all industries, sizes and offerings want to to build a Web or Mobile application if the following features are a priority - 

Scalability

.NET development, if done correctly can give you an incredibly scalable system that makes it easy for your company to handle varying user demands by giving you the ability to add or remove users in line with workload requirements. Essentially, scalability is a measure of how well your system responds to differing variables such as workloads, users, new workstreams etc.

Security

Whilst .NET, like all frameworks has vulnerabilities it also has enhanced features that allow developers who use it to take proactive measures to ensure the security of the application. The key security concepts can be found here.

Performance

In order to achieve optimum performance across your .NET application there are a number of key aspects to consider such as -

• Optimising custom code and ensuring it is up-dated regularly
• Ensuring pages are cached
• Compressing data files

Resiliency

Whilst any good developer could create their own resiliency framework, Microsoft already has an offering for this that works on the .NET framework. Polly, is essentially a resilience and transient fault handling library that holds extensive capabilities in faults-handling. Polly offers ready built policies such as - Retry, Timeout, Fallback and Circuit Breaker so developers don't need to create their own from scratch, and thus, less development time is needed for the application to be developed.