Just before last weekend I noticed that a website I'm responsible for started spitting out "Server is busy" messages, not something you want to see on a website with millions of visitors per day. The quickfix was to recycle the application pool, and thus I solved the symptoms by setting a 15 mins recycle cycle on all the application pools. Not exactly optimal, but sometimes pissing your pants is the way to go.
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I got quite a lot of comments for my
XmlDocument fluent interface, and I'm very glad I did. I'm always open towards new ways to solve problems, and I got a couple of suggestions to my post that I afterwards experimented with. One of those is using the XmlSerializer to serialize strongly typed classes (or structs - performance is the same) into XML.
Jon von Gillern originally suggested it, but
Kris Vandermotten made me want to test it out.
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In this post I'll take a practical approach at talking about what SQL Server Mirroring is, the advantages and considerations that follows.
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Switches are rarely nice in an architectural aspect, but they are often required none the less. One of the ways we can reduce the risk of errors as well as increase readability is to use enumeration values instead of constants. Unfortunately this only works for numeric types, we cannot create a string enumeration. Here's a workaround.
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When performing queries against a SQL Server database, there are a couple of methods readily available. However, an option is missing.
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There are two primary reasons for venturing into the realms of clustering/load balancing - availability & scalability. In this post I'll give a quick demo of how to setup Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Server 2003 and how it affects the availability of a web application.
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Some of you may know that I used to play a lot of poker. Unfortunately that's not the case any more. I really enjoy live poker when I'm in Vegas, I enjoy the major tournaments and I've definitely not participated in my last WSOP. But as for online poker and the daily grind, I've quit it. I just don't find it exciting any more. While the mathematical aspect acquired my interest early on, I never enjoyed grinding as such, it was purely for monetary reasons.
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I spend a lot of time architecting for scalability, availability and security during my daily work. Currently I've got a distributed system consisting of several windows services communicating across machines using WCF and authenticating through Active Directory.
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