Part of the series: Performance Hacking .NET Update: The code discussed in this post is now available on GitHub. Reflection is great. I have used it many times to solve the unsolvable, as I’m sure you have. But it is slow! Isn’t it? I mean… it has to be, right? It’s doing things at runtime […]
.NET isn’t a performance-first platform. It’s a productivity platform! Its goal is to allow us to write a bunch of business logic quickly without having to worry about the micro-details. Your code should just work, and be reliable. For the most part, this is a GOOD thing. My advice is to embrace that you don’t […]
The other day a dev asked the team I’m on for help with a caching issue they were having. They were putting things into the cache, with an expiration time, but it wasn’t refreshing at the expected time. We recently switched our caching from memcached to Redis so we just assumed this was a bug […]