NodeJs and MongoDb on Windows : Connecting and Inserting

MongoDb is an interesting choice of permanent persistence when using NodeJs since it stores document which is ideal of JSON document to get stored. You can download a free version directly on MongoD : https://www.mongodb.com/download-center#community Once it’s downloaded, it’s best to be sure that the system environment variable is set to have an entry in […]

How to boost caching performance to cache Entity Framework object

Entity Framework objects are dangerous for caching because of their nature to keep references to object. If you have an object that contains a list of object that can contain back the initial object, you come in a scenario where you have a infinite deepness of reference. While this is not a problem in memory, […]

Improving your Azure Redis performance and size with Lz4net

The title is a little misleading. I could rewrite it has improving Redis performance by compressing the object your serialized. It’s not related to Azure Redis particularly, neither to Lz4net which is a way to compress. However, I have learn that compression is improving Redis on Azure recently. It helps in two different ways. First, […]

Migrating your Local SQL Server Database to Microsoft Azure

Migrating a SQL Server Database into Azure is easy but not obviously. Here is few steps that might save you some hours. These steps are migrating the schema by creating a new database at destination with all data. First of all, you need to open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. Right click the database you […]

SQL Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric

When you are using straight ADO.Net with SQL you may come when using an operation that produce an overflow. This is often hard to debug if you are inside an update statement which update several fields. You may think than using cast or convert to the type of the destination field solve the problem, but […]

Redis’ Service Eating Windows Hard drive Space

I noticed my hard drive losing space faster than usually. I decided to run a tool named “WinDirStat” which is free and allow to get a portrait of your hard drive. Within few seconds, the culprit was inside Windows folder, to be more accurate: C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Redis. I am running Redis as a service on my machine […]

Redis Experimentation with Full List Cache against using Redis Sorted List

I am improving the performance of a system right now with Redis and the library StackExchange. Onne particular case was that I needed to cache a list of data that are ordered by rank from a value that change often. One requirement is that it’s possible that two items can have the same rank. For […]

How to Extend Glimpse for Redis

Glimpse is the best real time profiler/diagnostic add-on you can have for your Asp.Net MVC solution. I will not describe in that article all the capabilities but in one sentence, Glimpse allows to have for you Asp.Net MVC project all times for each calls like filter, action, db call, etc. Unfortunately, no extension has been […]

Using Redis in Asp.Net in an Enterprise System

I wrote about how to integrate Redis into Asp.Net MVC few days ago. Here is a way how to integrate Redis into your solution with dependency injection and abstracting Redis. This additional layer will be helpful if in the future we change from Redis to Memcached or simply. The first step is to create the […]

Integrating Redis in your Asp.Net MVC Project

I have been using Memcached for the last decade and wanted to try Redis on a new project. Redis is also a cache system that allow you to cache data in the ram memory for fast access, like Memcached. Redis offers the same key-value experiences. Redis is newer and is having more functionalities. Where Memcached […]