Reliability- June 23, 2003 Ive been putting off writing this blog, not just because Im on vacation in Maui and have far more tempting things to do. Its because one of my blogs has already been used on Slashdot as evidence that Windows cannot scale and wont support distributed transactions (http:slashdot.orgcomments.plsid=66598&cid=6122733), despite the fact that Windows scales well and does support distributed transactions. So Im nervous that this new blog will be quoted somewhere as evidence that..http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/06/23/51482.aspx Infrequent blogging- June 16, 2003 Just a quick explanation for why there hasn't been a new blog lately. I'm partway through a 3.5 week vacation on Maui. I have wireless & broadband out by the pool, but I can't seem to find the time to blog. Things will return to normal by mid-July.http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/06/16/51477.aspx AppDomains ("application domains")- June 1, 2003 An AppDomain is a light-weight process. Well, if you actually measure the costs associated with an AppDomain especially the first one you create, which has some additional costs that are amortized over all subsequent ones then light-weight deserves some explanation: A Win32 process is heavy-weight compared to a Unix process. A Win32 thread is heavy-weight compared to a Unix thread, particularly if you are using a non-kernel user threads package on Unix. A good.http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2003/06/01/51466.aspx |