Following my recent webinar with SharpCrafters on how to setup pseudo real-time performance monitoring using Aspect Oriented Programming and Amazon CloudWatch, I’d like to say thanks to the guys for having me, it was a great fun For anyone interested, the source code is available at: http://aop-demo.s3.amazonaws.com/RTPerfMonDemo.zip If you want to run the demo console [...]

I love using F#’s Record and Discriminated Union types, they work nicely with pattern matching inside your F# code and can often alleviate some of the ceremony involved around creating and using a complex object hierarchy. However, on the odd occasion when you need to serialize them into JSON/XML/Binary format, it might not be immediately [...]

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I will be doing a webinar with the good folks of PostSharp on the 22nd March to talk about the use of AOP and AWS CloudWatch as a pseudo real-time performance monitoring tool (see high-level overview here). It’s a free webinar, it runs from 22nd March 3PM – 4PM GMT, the registration link is here. [...]

Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does not support serialization of fields, but offers comparable speed [...]