by
Tom
14. June 2012 10:21
Introduction
As most of you might know, I am currently in the process of improving the scalability of the Paycento backend..
As a real lean adept, the idea is to optimize where it hurts... As the creator of Node.js pointed out perfectly, the biggest pain is in the disk/network access etc.. Blocking threads hurt bigtime... So I started searching for easy low-cost optimizations that would not require to much effort....
Before we begin: Phase 0 - measuring=knowing; ask Heracles
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.net, asp.net mvc, c#, cache, codeproject, Heracles, Lean, Paycento, Startup, unit testing, w00t
CodeProject | Development
by
Tom
18. May 2012 14:56
Introduction
As you might now I started working quite recently for the startup Paycento. One of the things I am currently doing is setting up a system that allows us to do continuous integration and deployment everywhere and anywhere...
As I got into an interesting discussion with Simon Guindon on twitter about the choice between a custom tool and an existing one like CruiseControl.Net for example, he suggested me to write a blog post about it. So here it is...
You are suffering from the NIH (Not-Invented-Here) - syndrome!!
So what! I get paid to write code, so I should not care what I write... or not ?
As a startup we have to make sure that everything we do provides business value, so why would one go to all this trouble to write his own CI/deployment system, if there are existing things available ?
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