Last week I read an article about Netflix Chaos Monkey and it provoked some thoughts. I’ve read about Chaos Monkey before but back then I didn’t realize some aspects of it. I guess the difference is that I recently started working on a distributed system project and an important aspect of my work is the …
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Profiing Data Visualization
Every .NET performance profiling tool offers some form of data visualization. Usually, the profiling data is shown in a hierarchical representation such as calling context tree (CCT) or calling context ring chart (CCRC). In this post I would like to provide a short description of the most commonly used profiling data visualizations. In general, CCT …
CLR Limitations
Yesterday I ran one of my apps onto VirtualBox VM and it suddenly crashed with OutOfMemoryException. There is nothing special about my app, it allocates one large array of System.UInt64 and does some calculations. So, it seems that my problem was related to the array size. Array size limitations Here are a few facts about my …
OWIN and NGINX
Since a few months I work with non-Microsoft technologies and operating systems. I work with Linux, Puppet, Docker (lightweight Linux containers), Apache, Nginx, Node.js and other. So far, it is fun and I’ve learned a lot. This week I saw a lot of news and buzz around OWIN and Katana project. It seems that OWIN …