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On Stack Overflow's recent battles with the .NET Garbage Collector(samsaffron.com)
183 points by sams99 15y ago|72 comments
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by sams99 15y ago
you do realise that only about 0.09% of our requests were affected by this, catching them all is the whole point here.
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by sams99 15y ago
I am really not following your criticism of Dapper? Without Dapper we would both need more servers AND have significantly higher latency. There is no magic here, it is merely understanding the limitations of the .NET GC and adapting to it.
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by sams99 15y ago
Really? We register for notifications from the GC using a magic threshold number that could mean anything. Then we quickly notify the rest of the webs a GC is pending on our "message bus". They let us know they are safe from GC at the momen
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by sams99 15y ago
The comment on the reason port 601 is blocked in chrome is quite funny. http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src/net/base/net_util.cc
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Blog spam, a JavaScript approach(samsaffron.com)
13 points by sams99 15y ago|0 comments
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Challenge: can you port MiniProfiler to Ruby on Rails(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by sams99 15y ago|0 comments
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by sams99 15y ago
I agree this is mega confusing, we are probably going to change this and introduce a meta.so style brand for the mini site
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by sams99 15y ago
You do realize we already have 13,700 facebook related questions? http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions
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by sams99 15y ago
What surprises me is that lack of backlash for the shoddy upgrade process... Moving from Rails 2 to Rails 3 is a nightmare, a documented nightmare in 3 parts http://goo.gl/2Xw7n Sure you can get part of the way by porting to bundler and u
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by sams99 15y ago
The rails 2 -> rails 3 upgrade path is one of the most complex upgrade paths I have seen for a web framework
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by sams99 15y ago
Not as far as I know. The concepts are all open, I hope this is ported to other platforms.
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by sams99 15y ago
re "where we were not sufficient" The big advantage we have is "production ubiquity". As a "trusted user" navigates through the site - in production - she can see the time it took to render the page ... on the page ... this constantly updat
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by sams99 15y ago
I will probably end up doing the same I did for dapper and maintain both
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by sams99 15y ago
sure does, tested the same interfaces with dapper way earlier and they work fine
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by sams99 15y ago
See also my blog: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/06/09/+Profiling+your+web... for more details
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Stack Overflow profiler, revamped and open sourced (samsaffron.com)
2 points by sams99 15y ago|0 comments
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by sams99 15y ago
my dev box runs a clone of production, I do all my tuning on dev then deploy to staging, confirm it is still good there and finally ship it to production
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A day in the life of a slow page at Stack Overflow(samsaffron.com)
18 points by sams99 15y ago|0 comments
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Select N+1 Is a Problem We Made For Ourselves(wekeroad.com)
3 points by sams99 15y ago|0 comments
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Stack Exchange release open source Redis client(marcgravell.blogspot.com)
57 points by sams99 16y ago|1 comments
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by sams99 16y ago
Scaling problems are not unique to .Net, you have them with Rails, PHP and even C++. As long as you are able to measure where your bottlenecks are and address them you are fine. I had a ball working on these performance issues and tuning do
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Stack Overflow now accept anonymous edits(blog.stackoverflow.com)
45 points by sams99 16y ago|18 comments
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by sams99 16y ago
This is total shallow flaimbait. As a C#/Ruby developer I embarked on the somewhat painful journey of learning Objective-C a few weeks ago. I got my first personal app written to control my Denon 3808 remote. Admittedly it would have taken
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by sams99 16y ago
When will people learn to use bcrypt for their passwords, and on that topic, when will a "security expert" bless it http://stackoverflow.com/q/3722780/17174
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by sams99 16y ago
I agree, open id sucks. Or more specifically the billion different evolving implementations of open id suck. Making your users feels stupid sucks and having your business totally dependent on a third party sucks. There is a lot of suck. How
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by sams99 16y ago
If you want to learn, the easiest way to start would be on a 9 by 9 board using a program like gnu-go. Computers are awfully predictable and have a hard time even on a 9 by 9 board. Next up, I would look at checking out a local Go club, may
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by sams99 16y ago
I used to be 2-4k but had trouble holding 5k* on igs a few years ago. If I started playing now I would probably struggle holding 8k. Life, my daughter, 2 personal projects and work got in the way. I miss the social aspect of Go, I find the
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by sams99 16y ago
And I was reading this today http://tortoisesvn.net/howpaypalscrewsopensourceprojects ouch
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by sams99 16y ago
You really should be using community tracker, my other baby :) http://community.mediabrowser.tv/ I'm so happy I moved off phpbb it was causing nothing but grief. No hard feeling here, I think you are building an awesome business

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