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Steve Smith | Ardalis RSS Feed | 17 Dec 2021 21:20
Steve Smith writes "....Little's Law was first described in 1954 and later proved by John Little in 1961. It is typically expressed as: L = λW L represents the…"
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 27 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....I just went over the following pull request, where I found this nugget:I have an admittedly very firm views on the subject of error handling. The difference between good error handling and the merely mediocre can be ten times more lines of code, but..."
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Exception.Message property considered harmful
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Steve Smith | Ardalis RSS Feed | 26 Oct 2021 00:00
Steve Smith writes "....The dotnet format tool is now a part of the dotnet CLI with .NET 6, and you can use it to easily adopt the new file scoped namespace feature…"
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 25 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....I’ll start with saying that this is not something that is planned in any capacity, I run into this topic recently and decided to dig a little deeper. This post is mostly about results of my research.If you run a file sharing system, you are going to..."
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Looking into convergent encryption
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 22 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....Recently we had to tackle a seriously strange bug. A customer reported that under a specific set of circumstances, when loading the database with many concurrent requests, they would get an optimistic concurrency violation from RavenDB.That is the..."
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Heisenbug: The concurrent exception in the transaction that will only occur if you observe it
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 21 Oct 2021 17:03
Scott Hanselman writes "....Great tweet from Oleg Kyrylchuk (follow him!) showing how cool Parallel.ForEachAsync is in .NET 6. It's new! Let's look at this clean bit of code in .NET 6 that calls the public GitHub API and retrieves n number of names and bios, given a list of..."
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Parallel.ForEachAsync in .NET 6
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 20 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....Following my previous post, which mentioned that you can save significantly on disk space if you store a plain text attachment using gzip, we go a feature request:Perhaps in future attachments could have built-in compression as well?The answer to..."
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Negative feature response: Automatic attachment compression in RavenDB
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 19 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....In distributed systems, the term Byzantine fault tolerance refers to working in an environment where the other nodes in the system are going to violate the invariants held by the system. Sometimes, that is because of a bug, sometimes because of a..."
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When the error is byzantine
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Scott Hanselman | Scott Hanselman's Blog | 18 Oct 2021 22:33
Scott Hanselman writes "....Award for longest blog post title ever? Andrey Muzychenko has a great github repository where they decompiled the 25 year old Space Cadet Pinball application from Windows 95/XP and then recompiled it for Linux (and really any platform now that it's..."
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Space Cadet Pinball for Windows 95 recompiled for Linux running on Windows 11 as a Linux app under WSLg
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Oren Eini | Ayende @ Rahien | 18 Oct 2021 12:00
Oren Eini writes "....A user called us with a strange bug report. He said that the SQL ETL process inside of RavenDB was behaving badly. It would write the data from the RavenDB server to the MySQL database, but then it would immediately delete it.From the MySQL logs,..."
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Finding a bug with code that isn’t there
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