Shared Resources in TeamCity
It’s a common requirement that a set of your tests depends on some resources. It might be a database or an Azure Storage account. It’s possible that instead of providing...
A pointer to a generic method argument
Let’s consider a following method signature of an interface taken from a RampUp interface.
Roslyn coding conventions applied
Roslyn is a ‘compiler as a service’ provided for both VisualBasic.NET & C#. It has a thriving community of people providing new features for .NET languages. One of the most...
The art of benchmarking
I’ve been told that Akka can process 50 millions of messages per second on a laptop. This isn’t the number you hear every day, even if you write performance focus...
We accept pull requests
There are many protocols of collaboration. There’s famous C4 from 0MQ & others as well. Sometimes a project lives without collaboration rules being explicitly stated for years and can be...
False sharing is dead, long live the Padded
False sharing is a common problem of multithreaded applications in .NET. If you allocate objects in/for different threads, they may land on the same cache line impacting the performance, limiting...
Ping pong Bruce Lee test
There is a famous Bruce Lee clip showing him as a very good ping pong player using unusual tooling to get the job done. It thought that this ping pong...
StructLayoutKind.Sequential not
If you want to write a performant multi threaded application which actually is an aim of RampUp, you have to deal with padding. The gains can be pretty big, considering...
Using Fody to provide common parts for structs
The RampUp library is meant to provide low-latency, low/no-alloc environment for building fast systems in .NET. As it’s based on messaging in an actor-like/SEDA fashion, the messages are the first...
OpCodes.Ldtoken
You probably used typeof operator a few times. It’s quite funny, that an operator like this actually has no MSIL counterpart. Using it emits TWO OpCodes.