November 2007 - Posts

Rico's Instrumentation Aphorisms
30 November 07 06:14 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   

A few months ago, Mary Gray of the Management Practices Team came to talk to me about good practices for creating performance counters and doing measurements generally. She interviewed me on the topic for about an hour and was madly scribbling notes the Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice

Linq to SQL Compiled Queries are thread-safe
29 November 07 05:00 PM | ricom | 6 Comments   

JD Conley wrote an interesting article showing the benefits you can get by using compiled queries on his blog .  He wrote me today saying: "I enjoyed your postings on linq to sql performance and compiled query optimization. I recently published Read More...

Filed under: performance, recommendations

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 ship today
19 November 07 02:48 PM | ricom | 5 Comments   

Well you can read all about it on Soma's blog -- today is the day! I'm really proud of the work we did in this release and I'm especially proud of that performance work -- great results in many areas with Linq and VB taking top honors from me on really Read More...

Filed under: recommendations

Performance Threat Models
13 November 07 12:37 PM | ricom | 1 Comments   

I've been meaning to post this for ages and somehow I kept forgetting. J.D. and I have long thought that many of the techniques used to do a security threat model are actually directly applicable to doing performance analysis as well. The idea of threats Read More...

Filed under: performance, design advice, recommendations

File Open Performance -- Beware of 'Extensions'
03 November 07 09:07 PM | ricom | 7 Comments   

Here is a little interchange I had a few days ago; "Nick From Chicago" graciously allowed me to share it nearly verbatim. I'd like to claim that I was psychic in diagnosing this but as you can see in the thread it isn't the first time I've run into this Read More...

Filed under: performance