In this series of article, we’re retracing how I debugged an InvalidProgramException, caused by a bug in the Datadog profiler, from a memory dump sent by a customer. This is the last part of the investigation, about figuring out what is wrong with the IL code.

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In this series of article, we’re retracing how I debugged an InvalidProgramException, caused by a bug in the Datadog profiler, from a memory dump sent by a customer. In this part, we extract the dynamic IL from the memory dump.

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In this series of article, we’re retracing how I debugged an InvalidProgramException, caused by a bug in the Datadog profiler, from a memory dump sent by a customer. The first part of the investigation is an introduction to using a memory dump from a .NET application to find the information you seek.

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Even with years of experience, WebRequest managed to surprise me.

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Using startup hooks to automatically fetch GC metrics from any .net core application.

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How to inspect arbitrary values in the memory of a .net process on Linux… And find an unexpected bug in the process.

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Non-exhaustive list of code patterns to avoid in C#, either because they are risky or perform poorly.

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Explaining the ThreadPool starvation issue, and how it can be made worse by the way work-items are queued.

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Inspiration for quarantine days: how to connect a Raspberry Pi to a training bike to stream the speed to a computer and pause a video when below 20 km/h

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Leveraging the async machinery to transparently switch to the UI thread when needed.

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