Being Cellfish

Since it is new year's eve I'm going to make it easy for myself.

When I say web service scale testing I mean testing to figure out how many instances of your service you need. This type of testing is real...

One question that comes up quite often is if you should always use async/await or not. Sadly enough the answer is not simple because there ...

Over the years I've encountered organizations and individuals that all have different levels of service monitoring maturity. I figured i...

I once was working with a company that complained that my code was not optimized because it used 100% of the CPU . So I asked if the user in...

A recent article on StackOverflow performance brought some memories back; how easy it is to lie with statistics.

Historically I've seen the Hashtable be favored over ConcurrentDictionary with the assumption that is was more efficient allowing for ...