Note: don’t forget to check out the Benchmarks page to see the latest round up of binary and JSON serializers.   Since my last round of benchmarks on binary serializers, there’s a new player in town – MessageShark, which at the time of this writing does not support serialization of fields, but offers comparable speed [...]

Just a quick note to mention that I will be speaking to The Developers Group on the 14th Mar about NoSQL Databases and how to use them to solve common web use cases. In this session I’ll give an overview of the NoSQL movement and compare the different types of NoSQL databases and their relative [...]

This will be the last post on rebuilding the MailboxProcessor using TDF, here’s a quick discussion of the missing pieces… First, lets start with the simple ones, these don’t really require much discussion. DefaultTimeout 1 2 3 4 5 let mutable defaultTimeout = Timeout.Infinite member x.DefaultTimeout with get() = defaultTimeout and set(value) = defaultTimeout <- value This simply provides a mutable property using Timeout.Infinite as a default setting. CurrentQueueLength 1 member x.CurrentQu[...]