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Nicholas Blumhardt

@nblumhardt.com

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Founder at @datalust.co, core maintainer for #serilog, original #autofac author, long-ago-.NET PM. Deep down the #rustlang rabbit hole. Also at nblumhardt.com/@nblumhardt. 🇦🇺

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Nicholas Blumhardt @nblumhardt.com · 15/09/2026

All set up for a fun day at #ndcoslo tomorrow! Drop in and say “hi” if you’re around 👋

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Nicholas Blumhardt @nblumhardt.com · 10/03/2026

Quick question; we have a lot of variation between monitors on our dev machines. On yours, do the charts in this screenshot appear in little white boxes against a more grey background, or is the whole chart area just one big flat white canvas? Thanks! 😀

A development-time screenshot of the Seq 2026.1 Metrics screen, showing a grid of charts (and not much interesting data).

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Nicholas Blumhardt @nblumhardt.com · 26/05/2025

The first 1.0M is the hardest 😉 www.nuget.org/packages/Ser...

NuGet download stats for SeilogTracing showing 1.0M total

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Nicholas Blumhardt @nblumhardt.com · 20/05/2025

Since data movement has such a huge impact on performance in distributed systems, we did a bit of work cleaning up Seq's query plans in 2025.1, and now explicitly show the send/receive operations that connect computations locally and over the network. Still not perfect, but getting closer! 😁

A screenshot of an `explain select distinct(Keys(@Properties)) from stream` query in the Seq UI. Indentation shows the "receive" operations outermost, and "send" operations indented below them. Receive operations are tagged with their merge strategy, e.g. "unordered", and the send operations with their partitioning strategy, e.g. "unconstrained".

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