Optimization

In this offering, I can take your C# code and optimize it by applying the Ultra-Fast techniques.

My approach is to apply a fixed amount of effort over a fixed period. The idea is specifically not to produce an absolute final optimized product that's ready for your customers. Instead, my changes can help establish a framework that demonstrates the principles, and allows your team to pick up from there and carry the work into production.

The code can be client-side or server-side. Typical optimization areas include:

• Project structure
• Networking issues
• Silverlight
• Deployment
• Monitoring
• File I/O
• Network I/O
• Using async I/O
• Data access layer
• Business object structure
• Interprocess communication issues (including web services)
• Threads and locking
• Caching
• Use of background threads
• Memory use
• Writing performance-oriented unit tests

Optimization projects are usually broken down into two phases: analysis and testing first, followed by coding. In some projects, the first phase may require some support from your development team.

My focus is normally not on code hot spots that you might turn up with a profiler, or to address user interface performance. Rather, the idea is to tackle high-impact architectural-level issues first.

You must be able to package up your code and deliver it to me so that I can build, run and debug it on my local machine.

If this interests you, please send the following information, so that I can provide a quote:

• A brief description of your project
• Performance issues that you are most concerned about
• Your goals for the engagement
• Your schedule requirements