Again, I’d like to thank Igal Tabachnik and SharpCrafters for inviting me to do the webinar, the recording of the session is now available on their Vimeo channel. Pseudo Real Time Performance Monitoring with AOP and AWS CloudWatch from SharpCrafters on Vimeo.   Performance Monitoring with AOP and Amazon CloudWatch View more PowerPoint from Yan [...]

To find the answer to this question I put together a very simple test, but before we go into it.. Disclaimer: this test and its result should be taken at face value only, it is intended to illustrate that posting messages to an agent is super lightweight, but in a real world application there will [...]

One of the problems with using F#’s Discriminated Unions is that they are not extensible, in that all your union cases must be specified inside one Discriminated Union (abbreviated to DU from this point) type and you can’t inherit from an existing DU type to add additional union cases. In most cases, having to specify [...]

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 [...]