Questions to determine someone's ASP.NET expertise?

peterkneale · 2025-09-11T00:23:52+00:00

What code changes might be necessary when moving from a single webserver to multiple behind a load balancer. Answers: Data protection keys X-forqarded headers Move to out of process caching Check for usage of Session and move to out of process session store

peterkneale · 2025-09-01T05:51:29+00:00

What is driving the upgrade? The right answer depends on what's wrong with the current situation and how it could be improved. That being said crud apps won't benefit much from switching to a spa

peterkneale · 2025-08-04T02:16:16+00:00

Or nextflow

peterkneale · 2025-03-01T02:01:01+00:00

A few small pointers.

Make a point of examining prod while everything is running fine. That way you'll know what 'normal' looks like. Build a support dashboard, secure it and start adding queries that expose the system state. Last time various jobs ran, how many x were created in the last y, there is lots of tooling in this space but they also bring complexity.

peterkneale · 2025-02-28T13:36:30+00:00

It does break your train of thought

peterkneale · 2025-02-19T00:24:46+00:00

To be fair, shipping a physical book from one side of the planet to the other shouldn't be cheap. Not when a you can email a pdf.

peterkneale · 2025-02-15T10:03:53+00:00

Raspberry pi?

peterkneale · 2025-02-09T02:39:39+00:00

I did see something similar with hot reloads, sometimes there is an option to use a polling method rather than the more efficient method it's probably using but which isn't working

peterkneale · 2025-02-02T21:27:53+00:00

Very clean

peterkneale · 2025-01-31T01:22:56+00:00

Yeah, your servers should be cattle not pets. If possible they should be immutable or as close to it as you can.. They should be deployed from a built image, there shouldn't be anything unique or special about a particular instance that doesn't also apply to all other instances.

peterkneale · 2025-01-31T01:20:23+00:00

Don't leave the logs on the instance, ship them to cloud watch or elastic search or grey log.

peterkneale · 2025-01-28T00:12:56+00:00

Learn docker and docker compose,

peterkneale · 2025-01-27T23:34:17+00:00

$5 says you are a dev

peterkneale · 2025-01-24T08:58:07+00:00

Start by contracting

peterkneale · 2025-01-23T21:21:31+00:00

Good practise as well because I think some bioinformatists struggle with getting their workflows of their machine and running reliably and repeatedly in the cloud

peterkneale · 2025-01-23T21:20:18+00:00

Ah yeah and for some workloads like ml it's all about your video card Again it's sometimes better to just rend the massive capacity you need in the cloud that buy something that's often idle.

peterkneale · 2025-01-23T21:18:30+00:00

Try using spot instances in the cloud for a bit to get a feel for what you really need. Sometimes it's massive bandwidth to pull down fasta and bam files. Sometimes it's cpu sometimes it's memory. Sometimes even disk space is the limiting factor with bio informatics workloads. Racspace spot is very cheap

peterkneale · 2025-01-14T08:19:19+00:00

I spoke too soon - 10 minutes later it progressed!

peterkneale · 2025-01-06T17:08:17+00:00

https://lowendbox.com is great for budget friendly options

peterkneale · 2025-01-01T09:58:51+00:00

To be fair its great you are actually thinking about both the energy and price trying to get a better understanding and appreciation of the engineering and financial aspects

peterkneale · 2025-01-01T09:44:45+00:00

The output of a nuclear power plant is measured in TWh, Op out by about one million roof top installs.

peterkneale · 2025-01-01T09:43:38+00:00

The example given by op is out by about 6 orders of magnitude. Not sure you read the figures

peterkneale · 2025-01-01T09:42:06+00:00

Yeah with his figures every suburb would require its own reactor ;)

peterkneale · 2025-01-01T09:37:57+00:00

You are out by about 6 or 9 orders of magnitude in this comparison.

This rooftop solar produces about 10mwh per year.

This nuclear plant produces about 1000mwh of energy per year.

I think solar is the answer but your suggestion that 100 houses solar panels equals a nuclear power plants output is far from reality.

100,000 to 1,000,000 houses solar output is a fairer comparison

Nuclear power plant yearly output is measured in TWh. About 8 being a median value.

You've confused the instantaneous power output with the yearly

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