I recently spent some time looking at why an ASP.Net web site took a long time to start up. In the case I looked at, I ended up shaving over 30 seconds off the startup time of every app pool by fixing the following issues: · If your app deserialises...

I've been on several ASP.Net web site projects over the last couple of yeras doing performance analysis and I've found that every time there is a common series of quick wins I've been able to make that can have a substantial effect on the responsiveness...

When I'm profiling solutions I work on, many times one of the first bottlenecks I come across is tracing code - even if tracing is currently turned off in the solution! The reason for this is how the solution checks to determine whether to generate tracing...

It still amazes me how often I come across dev's who have no appreciation of just how slow hard disks and networks actually are, especially when you compare their latency to the speed of your average Pentium processor. As a result they often break all...

Over the last three years I've analysed the performance of at least a dozen completely different solutions. However the performance bottlenecks I find mostly tend to follow similar themes. Having analysed the types of issues that these bottlenecks are...

Seeing as this is my first blog I guess a good place to start is to tell you who I am, what I do and what pearls of wisdom I hope to impart in my blog. My name is Richard Florance, but a lot of people end up calling me Flo. I've been at Microsoft in...