I recently reorganized the SimpleSpeedTester project’s structure so that it’s easier to add tests to both the Json and binary serializer benchmarks, and to run the tests is as easy as running the RunBenchmarks.fsx F# script and then choosing which benchmark you’d like to run and then kick back and wait for the results to [...]

Some time ago I put together a small BERT serializer and BERT-RPC client for .Net called Filbert (which is another name for Hazelnut, that has the word bert and the letter F and at the time every F# library has a leading F in its name!). As an experimental project admittedly I hadn’t given too [...]

Just under three weeks ago, Amazon announced the public availability of their new Kinesis service, a service which is designed to allow real-time processing of streaming big data. As an experiment I have put together a simple, actor-based customer appender for log4net which allows you to publish your log messages into a configured Kinesis stream. [...]

I stumbled across this little gem the other day – websocketd – which turns anything that takes standard-in and standard-out into a websocket server! To build a dead simple echo server, follow these steps: follow the download instructions here (don’t forget to add it to your PATH) create a new console application in Visual Studio [...]

Hi everyone, happy new year! I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You can download and install it from Nuget [...]