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Server-side Mono: How ready is it?

Server-side Mono: How ready is it?

Slides for a talk that I gave at MonkeySpace 2013, lightly edited to make more sense by themselves.

Image credits and additional notes are available at http://www.fallingcanbedeadly.com/posts/monkeyspace-talk-slides-and-notes/

David Mitchell

July 25, 2013
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  1. Server-Side Mono
    How ready is it?
    David Mitchell
    @ThedMitchell
    www.fallingcanbedeadly.com

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  2. Why are we even investigating this?

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  4. Rational humans don’t want to use
    GUIs to configure their servers

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  5. Windows licenses are expensive!

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  6. Why stick with C#?

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  8. We’ve been using ASP.NET for a long time

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  9. And we love developers almost as much as this guy does

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  10. Who else is doing this?

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  17. In-depth information is lacking

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  18. I know!
    Let’s try porting a service!

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  19. But which
    one?

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  20. High Volume + Low Impact =
    Perfect Test Environment

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  21. The User Events service prevents our
    desktop and mobile apps from having
    to do this all day

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  22. Always build with
    Mono. You’ll find the
    dark corners more
    quickly

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  23. v4.0
    false
    false
    - Client
    false

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  27. .NET Forms Authentication Cookie
    2FAEFB705C9272307D5A58E8FCD5662A283943A8A630896B3
    37A186356EE5DC1789760BC302C1256E0B2C65E8F0D08908A
    D336CBBAE1656D4A6E709056E610ABC525FE6D7EEF7304F9
    D64B03A6B0B543901C04BC0A3D30CB7CBF54BD65792BD07
    4BB0F816A685DDACA556A07E569B114D6A43ADC8EF7425C
    D75A0E8922378ACE

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  28. Mono Forms Authentication Cookie
    4adTElGQ
    +cLVBQUVY5OaHiGVUIkIYJIwHTVhfBgBVgeEL6QVp8TZxMeT
    3eoW2Ka0iEpxDE75U7bdHjn3Utd6LqGRmIs+8AxrPMNUnrNH
    +9w=

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  29. Lesson:
    Sharing Forms Authentication between .NET and Mono is a pain.

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  31. Trying to interface with a version of SQL Server newer
    than 2005? You might have to do a bit of spring
    cleaning…

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  32. Lesson:
    Mono’s support for MS SQL Server > 2005 is spotty. Be prepared to improve its
    support or migrate to another DB provider.

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  33. How do we tell what’s going on?

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  34. New Relic is
    awesome, except
    for this

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  36. You are surrounded by a herd of yaks.
    > inventory
    You are carrying:
    a razor,
    the last shred of your sanity.
    > drop sanity
    https://twitter.com/carlfish/status/357289566866120705

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  37. Registry hacking?
    Shouldn’t we be past that by now?

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  40. (Sorry)

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  41. Disclaimer:
    When I say that the code isn’t done, I mean it. You’d be insane to run this in
    production without watching it very carefully.

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  43. Lesson:
    If you’re having difficulty with HTTPS, make sure that you’ve run mozroots and/or
    certmgr.

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  44. What was I doing, again?

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  45. Disclaimer:
    Benchmarks are pretty arbitrary. Don’t assume that my results will be anything like
    your results.

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  46. User Events on Windows

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  47. User Events on Ubuntu with Nginx

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  48. Look, it’s working as well as Windows!

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  49. …Until we have to GC

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  50. …and then we have to do a lot of GC

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  52. Mono web services are a lonely space because no
    one is talking about them

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  53. TO PUBLISH YOUR RESULTS

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  54. @theDMitchell
    www.fallingcanbedeadly.com

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