Chris Hurley

Chris is a Software Engineer with the .NET Developer Tools Division at Red Gate. He obtained a PhD in Biology before moving into professional software development

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20 June 2016
20 June 2016

Strengthening the Foundations of Software Architecture

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The term 'Architecture' seems to imply a plan that you can't easily subsequently deviate from. It's true that, if you abandon software architecture, you end up with a big ball of mud, but maybe the art of software is to make change much easier by planning how to implement each feature, tackling dependency issues, splitting functionality into small discrete components and considering how they should interact with each other.… Read more
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16 April 2015
16 April 2015

Catching Performance Issues in Development

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Refactoring code won't cause performance problems, right? This was the assumption when Chris Hurley and his team went out to improve some legacy code. They decided to separate the database access from business logic and standardise on Entity Framework, but when it came time to test the code using real-world workloads, unexpected performance issues appeared. Chris recounts how they discovered, investigated, and resolved these issues using ANTS Performance Profiler. … Read more
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