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Stack Exchange Website Profiler Now Open Source

Posted by timothy on from the go-forth-and-profile dept.

ScuttleMonkey writes "Joel Spolsky sent out smoke signals this morning about the recent release of the Stack Exchange Website Profiler as open source. Sam Saffron expounds on why this profiler is perhaps 'best and most comprehensive production web page profiler out there for any web platform.' The project is available via Google Code or NuGet."

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  1. .NET production profiler by yincrash · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be a little bit more informative is a low profile monitoring tool for production environments running .NET mvc.

    1. Re:.NET production profiler by j-pimp · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Awesome, open source code that requires you to use a closed source system to run it. That always makes me laugh.

      Are you running on pure open hardware? is all the microcode on all your firmware devices open source?

      You have a piece of software that can be integrated in a .NET web app to gain more visibility into how the app functions. Having that available is a good thing if you write .NET code. Having the source code available is a potentially better thing for you (I say potentially because I'm speaking of immediate and direct utility). The fact that .NET itself is not open source, and that windows itself is not open source does not nullify the utility of access to the source code for this profiler.

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  2. Re:Lots of work to do... by Rigbyd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sadly Joel Sprotsky the ex-Microsoftie still has a lot of work to do: choosing .NET and Windows server (!) was probably far from the smartest idea. All the biggest websites (eBay, Amazon, GMail, Google, Wikipedia, etc.) do NOT run on Windows servers for a reason.

    Perhaps you should start by looking at how StackOverflow actually does it since a majority of their servers *aren't* Windows based. http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html

  3. any web platform? by farnsworth · · Score: 4, Informative

    'best and most comprehensive production web page profiler out there for any web platform.'

    That's a little bit misleading. This project is basically instrumentation that you add to an asp.net 4.0 webapp. It does not seem to be usable by any other kind of webapp. It doesn't even look like it would be easy to port to the other major platforms.

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