.NET Systems Programming Learned the Hard Way

Dive into the intricacies of .NET systems programming in this comprehensive conference talk from NDC Oslo 2023. Explore advanced concepts such as thread quantums, blocking calls, remoting benchmarks, and lock-free coding. Gain insights into low-level components crucial for building high-performance distributed systems. Learn about the ThreadPool's inner workings, various synchronization mechanisms, memory management techniques including Span, and garbage collection. Understand the nuances of await, Task, and synchronization contexts. Discover how to navigate user-code and system boundaries in areas like sockets. Equip yourself with the knowledge to optimize .NET code for high-performance scenarios and comprehend the underlying mechanisms that drive your applications.