Some weeks ago I was working on a heavyweight .NET web application and got annoyed by the fact that I needed to wait forever to see changes in my code at work.
NOTE: This post is kept here for historic reference, and while this still presents the cleanest way to set up WCF, a shared library model is not in line with modern microservice architectures
In the first year of my physics education at TU Delft, I had a mandatory course labelled ’ethics of engineering and technology’. As part of the accompanying seminar we did a case study based on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster with a small group of students.
Ever had this application that just crashed or malfunctioned in a Production environment ? And whatever you tried, it wasn’t reproducible in Test ? Or perhaps it was just slow in serving some pages (web application), and you wanted to see the actual SQL your Object Relational Model (ORM) generated and sent to the database ?
In one of my posts about managed/unmanaged interop in C# (P/Invoke), I left you with the promise of answering a few questions, namely: can we manually create our own marshalling stubs in C# (at compile time), and can they be faster than the runtime generated ones ?
Let’s start with a riddle: what does a developer do to unwind at the end of a frustrating day at the office ? Answer: he goes home and takes some time to write more code.
