This World Cup has been exciting for me not just because of the great games but also because during the group stages I’ve been building a cool real time spectator monitoring application for it: Tweet For Your Team (powered by Kwwika real time data services). What does it do? The application streams tweets live from [...]
Posting of the previous performance comparison results (see here) has caused a much greater response I ever expected as well as some confusion about the goal of this test that I would like to respond to. How real (world) is this? Most importantly a performance test is useful if it can be used for predicting [...]
As part of my thesis I measured the performance of some .NET ORM frameworks including NHibernate and Entity Framework. Measuring was done by implementing two simple applications using the same table structure and doing the same operations on the same data. Note: before reading this article please see my views on comparing ORM tools. Also [...]
Over the weekend I’ve been in charge of monitoring one of our bigger portals which consists a database server (running SQL Server 2005) and multiple web servers (running IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET) connecting to it. The architecture of the system is the following: I’ve chosen a really simple – and at first glance efficient – [...]
