In a previous post (Automating memory profiling with the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API), I described the steps that could be used to automate the collection of memory snapshots and profiling data by using the JetBrains Profiler API NuGet package. In that post, we triggered the profiling session using the dotMemory application on Windows. As part […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, senior engineer and community lead. He works for Elastic. maintaining their .NET language clients. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 16 years.
Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on Twitter as @stevejgordon
Automating Memory Profiling with the JetBrains dotMemory Profiler API
Those who have read some of my previous performance-focused blog posts will know that I use the dotMemory product from JetBrains when working on code optimisations. In this post, I want to demonstrate a really handy, but somewhat underutilised feature, to automate the collection of snapshots in a repeatable way. I use these steps quite […]
Introducing the new IHostedLifecycleService Interface in .NET 8
As regular readers will be aware, an area of .NET which I follow closely is Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting. I’ve already blogged about a change in .NET 8, where new concurrency options have been introduced to support parallel running of the StartAsync and StopAsync across multiple IHostedServices. In this post, we’ll look at some new lifecycle events introduced […]
Concurrent Hosted Service Start and Stop in .NET 8
In this post, I will describe a new feature of the Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting library coming in .NET 8 (available since preview 4) affecting hosted services. Let’s first begin with a brief recap of hosted services. The hosting library for .NET, used in both the ASP.NET Core project template and the Worker Service template, provides the capability […]
Accessing State in System.Text.Json Custom Converters
In this post, I describe several techniques that can provide additional state to custom JsonConverters when using System.Text.Json. While building the new .NET client for Elasticsearch, one of the key objectives I gave myself was to move away from the internal Utf8Json-based serializer used in v7. The obvious choice was to look at redesigning the […]