It's the end of the 2008, and I will be celebrating the new year with Kitty and some friends from work tonight. Although this is a time for fun, I feel it's important to look back and analyze what I've done and identify areas of improvement. Here is what I have accomplished this year: 1) Ran Columbia Enterprise Developers Guild 2) Presented at 13 events. It may not look like much, but doing all of that takes a good amount of energy. Running a user group is a constant process with many surprises that...
We are currently in Performance testing with an enterprise solution made with .NET 2.0 and C#. For the record, it consumes several Java services and interfaces with a few other third party systems. When we first set up the performance site, we were using three load balanced web servers and three load-= balanced service servers using ssl between each hope. This turned out to cause a significant performance hit, and to get around it ssl was turned off between the service load balancer and the service...