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...