Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 2: Adding a Service to a Console Application” We are going to take this in two steps, first the minimal we need to do to make something *sorta* work, then we are going to get fancy. This post will focus on the first part, making something work. [...]
Continued from “Building a Windows Service – Part 1: Getting started” So now that we’ve built ourselves a console application it’s time to add the service. Doing this is strait-forward and we can use the Visual Studio template for both the service and a basic installer. The first thing I’ve done is to create a [...]
This is the first of what I hope to be a multi-part deep-dive into building managed Windows services. As with any task the first thing we need to discover is the why and what for. Services can be very useful for a number of situations. On the client side of things one might be using [...]
Nov 032011
So now that I’ve finally got around to releasing a protocol built on top of the RpcLibrary I thought it would be fun to re-run some benchmarks. The protocol has been around unreleased for almost a year waiting on some required changes in protobuf-csharp-port which have finally been published in a release. The protocol I’m [...]
Oct 182011
A few weeks ago I published NuGet packages for version 1.11.924.348. CSharpTest.Net.BPlusTree CSharpTest.Net.Library CSharpTest.Net.Logging CSharpTest.Net.RpcLibrary I also managed to get protobuf-csharp-port on board. I absolutely live by protobuffers. Google.ProtocolBuffers Google.ProtocolBuffersLite Finally I recently published a complete protobuf services rpc layer build on the RpcLibrary and protobuf-csharp-port. Of course much of the code there [...]
Ok I swear this is the last B+Tree chart, graph, or metric I’ll post… at least for a while. I wanted to hit new limits so I fired up 6 threads on my six-core and let them rip… After three hours I finally stopped the run to look at the results. Each of the six [...]
Oct 122011
Test Overview The benchmark results below are from a single thread on a process with the thread-affinity set except two. The BPlusTree(Threaded) and obviously MySql were not constrained. All data used during the test was generated before the test ran. The number displayed in the logarithmic horizontal axis is the average number of operations completed [...]
Oct 122011
Before I go much farther talking about the BPlusTree I want to address one thing. Does the BPlusTree support ACID operations? (definitions below from wikipedia) Atomicity Atomicity requires that database modifications must follow an “all or nothing” rule. Each transaction is said to be atomic. If one part of the transaction fails, the entire transaction [...]
Sep 272011
If you’ve missed it there is great article entitled Keep it secret, keep it safe by Eric Lippert. Essentially it attempts to dissect the essence of typical crypto issues in plain English (i.e. crypto for dummies). He did a great job of explaining the difficulties in key management, worth a read. I found it particularly [...]
Yes this site is still using wordpress, in fact, I’m writing this in wordpress right now. The interesting thing is I’ve completely uninstalled wordpress and MySql from my production server. I know crazy huh? So if I’ve peaked your curiosity you’ll want to stay tuned. Right now I don’t have time for a lot of details, [...]