How often in your code do you see ifs checking whether the object is not null? Often? Very often? What would happen if you didn’t have to check it out? Surely code would be easier to maintain – no ifs = no test cases. This can all be achieved using Null Object pattern.

Reading time ~4 minutes This post is an analysis of a very interesting optimization proposed by Nicholas Frechette in the comments under the previous post. He proposed to use one of the oldest tricks in performance cookbook - divide and conquer. Well, it did not turn out as I expected.Saga Before I go further here are some link to the previous posts on the problem of calculating similarities and then optimizing. This thread grew to a few post. Here are all of them:How I calculate similariti...

Reading time ~1 minute This will be a fast errata to the previous one. This time I will expand the oldest performance mantra: The fastest code is the one that doesn’t execute. Second to that is the one that executes once Last time I’ve forgot to mention one very important optimization. It was one of two steps that allowed me to go from 1530 to 484 seconds in the sample run.Saga Before I go further here are some link to the previous posts on the problem of calculating similarities and then...

Reading time ~5 minutes The previous post described the methodology I’ve used to calculate similarities between recipes in cookit. If You haven’t read it I’ll give it 4 minutes because it will make understanding this post easier. Go one, I’ll wait. It ended on a happy note and everything seemed to be downhill from there on. It was until I tried to run it. It took long. Very long. How long? I don’t know because I’ve canceled it after about one hour. Going with a famous quote (probably from E...

Reading time ~6 minutes This post is covering a subset of what I am talking in my talk How I stopped worrying and learned to love parallel processing (currently only in polish). This will cover on how, in terms of performance, AsParallel can kick you in a place where it hurts a lot, simultaneously being a blessing in terms of… performance. How is that? Let’s look at someHistory AsParallel was introduced as an extension to LINQ with TPL in .NET 4.0. In theory, it’s God’s sent. The promise w...

Reading time ~4 minutes Diagnosing high memory usage can be tricky, here is the second part of how I found what was hogging to much memory in our system. In the previous post I’ve wrote how to create a memory dump and how many possibilities of catching just the right moment for it ProcDump has. When trying to analyze memory leaks, or high memory usage (not necessary meaning a leak) we have a few ways to approach it: Attach a debugger There are many problems with this approach, to name a fe...

Reading time ~3 minutes This is a fifth part of a series:part 1 - Why schedule and procrastinate jobs?part 2 - Overview of Hangfiepart 3 - Scheduling and Queuing jobs in Hangfirepart 4 - Dashboard, retries and job cancellationpart 5 - Job continuation with ContinueWithpart 6 - Recurring jobs and cron expressions Part 3 covered almost all functions in BackgroundJob class except for ContinueWith functions family. So here we go :) The fact that it has the same name as a System.Threading.Tasks.Task funct...

Reading time ~2 minutes In the previous post I’ve wrote about why I think the ability to schedule tasks for later execution is a fundamental technical feature, but also a must have from a business point of view. We are passed the whys, so lets get to the hows. The answer is simple - Hangfire. I’ve wrote about it here, here and here, so yeah, I like it. Hangfire is an amazing library. It has proved itself in my pet project (cookit.pl) and in a huge ERP system that we are building at work, where we repla...

Big updates related to the Warden project are coming this and the upcoming week. The first release (1.0.0) has just been published to the NuGet and additionally the Web Panel is almost completed. Not only the web interface will be available as a part of the repository, but also, it will be running in the Azure cloud in case you’d like to play with it or store your monitoring data without a need to provide own, hosting environment. And there is one more good news – Warden is getting a brand new logo.

In today’s post, I’ll describe what kind of interfaces have been defined in the Sentry project, and how you can take advantage of this knowledge, e.g. in order to create the custom metrics. I’ve tried to keep these interfaces as simple as possible, yet some of them require an explanation, mostly due to the fact, that even though the library itself is rather simple to use (I want to believe that it’s also what you think), it does not mean that the main methods when being executed, will return for example,...