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2017-05-13

Test your system without caching, too

Designing your system around stellar cache performance is almost certainly going to have you paged in the middle of the night. Make sure you test cache failure scenarios, and isolate your system to degrade gracefully.
2017-03-28

Using the TryGet pattern in C#

The TryGet pattern is a little gem scattered throughout C# APIs, but many developers might not notice it. Let's explore why it's so useful.
2016-04-16

Hello, World

In which I introduce myself.
2011-12-31

Read a book every two weeks for a year

I will be challenging myself to read a book every week for an entire year and blog about it as I go.