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Server-Side Mono How ready is it? David Mitchell @ThedMitchell www.fallingcanbedeadly.com

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Why are we even investigating this?

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

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Windows licenses are expensive!

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Why stick with C#?

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

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And we love developers almost as much as this guy does

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Who else is doing this?

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In-depth information is lacking

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I know! Let’s try porting a service!

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But which one?

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High Volume + Low Impact = Perfect Test Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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How do we tell what’s going on?

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New Relic is awesome, except for this

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

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(Sorry)

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

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What was I doing, again?

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

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User Events on Windows

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User Events on Ubuntu with Nginx

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Look, it’s working as well as Windows!

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…Until we have to GC

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…and then we have to do a lot of GC

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

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TO PUBLISH YOUR RESULTS

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@theDMitchell www.fallingcanbedeadly.com