This is the second post in a 3-part series on property-and-model based testing in FsCheck in C#.
Writing Better Tests Than Humans Can Part 1: FsCheck Property Tests in C#
This is the first post in a 3-part series on property-and-model based testing in FsCheck in C#.
.NET Core is Boiling the Ocean
I get asked regularly in the Akka.NET Gitter Chat and elsewhere about “when will Akka.NET support .NET Core?”
TL;DR; .NET Core
Part of the issue I’ll address here is that .NET Core means different things to different people and there hasn’t been clear messaging on that...
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Introducing the New .NET Stack
I’ve been a .NET developer for roughly 10 years now - since the summer after my freshman year in college in 2005 I’ve been developing in Visual Studio and .NET. I’ve founded three startups on .NET, worked for Microsoft, and founded multiple successful OSS projects in .NET - I say...
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Broken Windows: How Bad Software Releases Happen to Good Teams
One of my primary responsibilities with the Akka.NET project is release manager - I put together the release notes, press the big green button when we’re ready to deploy, and make sure that each contributor signs off on the release.
The thing I take most seriously about my job...
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Introducing NBench - an Automated Performance Testing Framework for .NET Applications
I originally posted this to the Petabridge blog earlier today. See the original here.
Not long ago in Akka.NET-land we had an issue occur where users noticed a dramatic drop in throughput in Akka.Remote’s message processing pipeline - and to make matters worse, this occurred in a production release of AKka.NET!
Yikes, how did that happen?
The answer is that although you can use unit tests and code reviews to detect functional problems with code changes and pull requests, using those same mechanisms to detect performance problems with code is utterly ineffective. Even skilled developers who have detailed knowledge about the internals of the .NET framework and CLR are unable to correctly predict how changes to code will impact its performance.
Hence why I developed NBench - a .NET performance-testing, stress-testing, and benchmarking framework for .NET applications that works and feels a lot like a unit test.
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The Beginner's Reference Guide to Startups
I was asked by a close friend earlier this week about whether or not I have any references, books, or recommended reading for anyone wanting to get into startups. I don’t have a single source that I can point to, so I thought I’d write one!
Let’s start from the...
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Introducing Access to {AI} Conference, November 12-13 2015
And now for something completely different - I’m hosting a conference in the November 12-13th in Mountain View, California called Access to {AI}.
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Developers Who Can Build Things from Scratch
There’s lots of different types of developers you’re going to need to work with over the span of your career in the software business, but the one I want to talk about today is the kind you need when you’re trying to build something new.
Finding a developer who can...
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Akka.NET Request for Contributors: Akka.Cluster
The next major milestone for Akka.NET is Akka.NET v1.1, the primary focus of which is a...