I’d like to start with a little housekeeping. Some readers asked me how I made the nifty table in part 2 that showed the costs broken down by major area. It was actually pretty easy to create that table using our profiler. I did 500 iterations of the...

So after getting some high level times I started digging into the particulars of the costs more broadly and I ended up studying a very simple query like the below one. Northwinds nw = new Northwinds(conn); var q = from o in nw.Orders where o.OrderId ...

I got some interesting questions about how to build good middle-tier caches in my inbox last week. I cleaned up the responses a little bit and I'm posting them here because they're actually pretty general. I've written about this before but some things...

[ By popular demand, here are links for all 5 parts in the series Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 -Rico ] I love Linq. Really. That might scare you because it has all these wacky new constructs and as a performance guy you'd think that I...

Well as you know I was featured on our Behind The Code show three months ago but alas for me my time as the current feature has come to an end and I am now, officially, a Behind The Code has-been. However it's good company to be in so I suppose I can...

Everyone knows that my 10 rules of performance are measure, measure, measure... etc. 10 times :) OK, well, if you didn't know, now you do. But does that mean that every time you tell someone about performance problems and/or risks that you should be doing...