A Little Introduction of Myself and My Work
I work in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, but spend most of my time in my lab developing new enterprise software and samples that focus on interoperability, scalability and performance. I’ve been at Microsoft for about 15 years and have held a few positions in the company, but working in my lab has been one of the most satisfying. I’m truly a developer at heart. I really do hope this blog becomes more of a forum where I can hear other developers’ thoughts on my applications as well as other insights on developing code.
One application that I developed last year and continue to work on is the .NET StockTrader, http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader. The .NET StockTrader is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a distributed service-oriented application based on the .NET Framework, and illustrates many of the .NET enterprise development technologies for building highly scalable, rich "enterprise-connected" applications. It is also designed as a benchmark kit to illustrate alternative tuning options within .NET and their relative performance.
You might think I would have a team to help me with developing my app, but it’s only me and my benchmark and networking expert, Jody. Jody has worked with me for years now, and got his start at National Software Testing Laboratories outside of Philadelphia. Let’s just say that we have a long history working together and definitely have seen some long nights in testing, tuning, fixing, and re-tuning various applications, but always learning new ways to really leverage the .NET Framework in scalable and interoperable enterprise scenarios—and publishing these findings so hopefully customers can use them.
Stay tuned because I have some interesting findings and updates that I’d love to share in the upcoming weeks. But for now, check out, http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader, for additional materials including to download the sample app to test yourself.
