I was recently tasked to review the performance of a data intense desktop application that uses WPF 4.5 for front end and streams data from the server using WCF 4.5 services. The application uses Entity Framework 5 as the Object Relational Mapper with SQL 2012. The standard configuration offered by all these technologies don’t usually support scale. While the application in question worked well for use cases where limited users & shorter range of data sets were being requested. But when more ......