My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Too big to fail

October 04, 2021
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down globally for about 6 hours. It was down to some poor person or process ...

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WFH assumptions based on faulty data

September 28, 2021
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I read a few new posts about remote work productivity that were, if I can be frank, awful. I wanted to quickly share ...

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Favorite improvements in .NET 6

September 07, 2021
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There is so much to look forward to in .NET 6 and with the open planning process you can see the upcoming releases with ...

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Favorite features in Visual Studio 2022 so far

August 24, 2021
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I am getting amped for the new feature in Visual Studio 2022, and if you want a peak at the latest changes, please ...

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Inducing and measuring ThreadPool exhaustion

August 10, 2021
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I have been really fascinated by the types of bugs that only manifest under load. It is the kind of issue you really ...

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Using Visual Studio to search objects in a memory dump

July 05, 2021
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There is just a ton of information buried in your dumps, you should really think about it as a snapshot, or as moment ...

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Debug & Analyze Dump Files in Visual Studio

June 21, 2021
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I was on Visual Studio Toolbox Live recently which is a biweekly show hosted by my friend and colleague Leslie ...

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Interpreting async code in CPU traces

June 03, 2021
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My good friend Christophe Nasarre over at Criteo wrote a great blog post on Understanding 'reversed' callstacks in ...

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Disable FLoC in ASP.NET

May 26, 2021
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With third-party cookies becoming less prevalent Google has introduce a new form of tracking called Federated Learning ...

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