.NET Core 3 was recently released and brought with it a bunch of innovations, including a brand new JSON (de)serializer System.Text.Json. We're going to compare this serializer with Newtonsoft.Json and other major .NET serializers. Check out this epic performance battle.
Lock contention is a state where one thread is waiting for another while trying to acquire a lock. Whatever time spent waiting for the lock is “lost” time that is wasted doing nothing and causes performance problems. In this article, you’ll see how to detect lock contention problems, debug them, and find the core cause of the issue.
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Performance issues never seem to disappear from the world, no matter how fast new computers become. To deal with those issues we need proper tools. We have some great tools on Windows. On .NET Core with Linux, things are not so great. But they’re getting better.
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.NET Core 3 was recently released and brought with it a bunch of innovations, including a brand new JSON (de)serializer System.Text.Json. We’re going to compare this serializer with Newtonsoft.Json and other major .NET serializers. Check out this epic performance battle.
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There’s an incredible built-in mechanism in Windows called Performance Counters that allows you to follow a whole lot of useful metrics. It’s easy to use, comes free, and perhaps not used as much as it deserves. In this article, we’ll see how to monitor performance counters with PerfMon, …
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In the 3rd part of the series we’ll see how to create asynchronous steps in the pipeline with TPL Dataflow. We’ll also see a new implementation using the Disruptor-net library.
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Logging is a big part of software development for many years now. This guide is a bird’s eye view of modern solutions for logging in .NET space.
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One of the most important concepts in modern programming is Exceptions. They were introduced in the 60’s with LISP and eventually made their way to practically all modern programming languages. This article is an extensive guide to dealing with exceptions in Visual Studio.
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In the First Part of the series, we talked about the Pipeline Pattern in programming, also known as the Pipes and Filters design pattern. In this part, we’ll see how to implement such a pipeline with TPL Dataflow.
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