In my last blog entry I described the problem of servers over committing resources. There are several solution to this problem. The simplest and most common is to make sure that the critical resource is easily and smoothly controlled by the host OS: CPU...

In the past few years, I have helped various groups deal with server problems related to resource usage. A typical scenario goes like this “we have a server we are about to release. It does great on our internal stress tests – generally composed of a...

I am aggregating the responses to the comments about my first post: About Common Lisp and Lisp in general: I have worked on Lisp for many years, and I think it has strength that sets it apart from other dynamic languages. My favorite is the fact...

Hello everyone, I am the Lead Architect of the CLR/UIFX group and the Chief Architect of the .NET Frameworks. I was thinking about what I should put in the first entry of my blog… as one of the founders of the CLR I thought it would be interesting to...