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Glad to see someone's doing something like this on top of the Microsoft stack. I was expecting the usual Linux+Ruby+Hadoop+Redis+etc thing. Pretty cool.

by kprobst 16y ago

benologist 16y ago
The MS stack doesn't get much love but it does get the job done, probably no worse than anything else. There are languages and platforms better suited to some of what I'm doing though - MongoDB is something I plan to explore a lot more this year for some really heavy duty stuff that would be a pain to do in SQL Server.
- kprobst 16y ago
  Incidentally, I'm working on a project now that is a good fit for MongoDB. I've been testing it with the stock C# driver running on Server 2008 and I like the performance so far. It takes a while to mentally switch paradigms (for me at least) but once you "get it" it's turtles all the way down.
  - benologist 16y ago
    Yeah it's really something else thinking in Mongo's query style. Spent a lot of time in Google and still do when I have to go in to the console heh.
quickpost 16y ago
Markus Frind is also doing some pretty huge volume on a Microsoft stack with plentyoffish.com... http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/microsoft-aspnet-20-performance/ http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/microsoft-aspne...
- kprobst 16y ago
  That's impressive. Thanks for the ref.
jasonkester 16y ago
You can say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works. You never really hear stories about how to make it scale because so long as you don't go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot, it just sorta scales on its own without you thinking about it. Every piece of the stack is crazy fast, and they're all built by one organization to work together. In that light, it's not all that surprising that it works so well. You see a lot of bias against MS in tech circles, but this is one thing that they're actually pretty good at.

Glad to see someone's doing something like this on top of the Microsoft stack. I was expecting the usual Linux+Ruby+Hadoop+Redis+etc thing. Pretty cool.

by kprobst 16y ago

Glad to see someone's doing something like this on top of the Microsoft stack. I was expecting the usual Linux+Ruby+Hadoop+Redis+etc thing. Pretty cool.

benologist 16y ago

The MS stack doesn't get much love but it does get the job done, probably no worse than anything else. There are languages and platforms better suited to some of what I'm doing though - MongoDB is something I plan to explore a lot more this year for some really heavy duty stuff that would be a pain to do in SQL Server.

kprobst 16y ago
Incidentally, I'm working on a project now that is a good fit for MongoDB. I've been testing it with the stock C# driver running on Server 2008 and I like the performance so far. It takes a while to mentally switch paradigms (for me at least) but once you "get it" it's turtles all the way down.
- benologist 16y ago
  Yeah it's really something else thinking in Mongo's query style. Spent a lot of time in Google and still do when I have to go in to the console heh.

quickpost 16y ago

Markus Frind is also doing some pretty huge volume on a Microsoft stack with plentyoffish.com... http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/microsoft-aspnet-20-performance/ http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/microsoft-aspne...

kprobst 16y ago
That's impressive. Thanks for the ref.

jasonkester 16y ago

You can say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works. You never really hear stories about how to make it scale because so long as you don't go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot, it just sorta scales on its own without you thinking about it. Every piece of the stack is crazy fast, and they're all built by one organization to work together. In that light, it's not all that surprising that it works so well. You see a lot of bias against MS in tech circles, but this is one thing that they're actually pretty good at.