I’m currently in the midst of speaking to vendors with “commercial off the shelf” (COTS) solutions in order to re-evaluate whether we should be building or buying software to fill a customer need. So I wanted to share some of my thoughts on the evaluation process to hopefully help others. Purpose for Developers As software …
I had the wonderful opportunity to attend and speak at the Nashville DevOpsDays 2017 Conference last week. So I wanted to share some quick thoughts from my first DevOpsDays experience. Venue The venue (The Bell Tower) was a really cool and intimate space. Not too big/small it was just the right size. The food was …
I just gave a talk at the DevOpsDays Nashville 2017 conference titled “Painful to Painless: Moving 100+ developers and 60+ apps to Continuous Delivery”. Which I thought was a good title at the time of my original proposal but as I got closer to the conference I identified the need for my presentation to be …
PowerShell has become my “go to” tool for administering or troubleshooting remote servers. It is so nice to not have to remote into the server with Remote Desktop. This usually starts with a quick google search to find a sample script to perform the needed task in PowerShell. Over time I have accumulated a decent …
Over the last year, I’ve primarily used Hyper-V as my driver for Kitchen in developing Chef cookbooks for Windows. I’m now starting to branch out to build some cookbooks for Linux and really don’t want to build my own Hyper-V images. So Vagrant is the obvious choice but I still use Hyper-V and don’t want …
Provisioning in Kitchen with Vagrant and the Hyper-V Provider Read More »
We recently noticed a slow down in performance for one of our ASP.NET applications and after thoroughly checking for code changes, determined none of our code had changed. So then we started checking for OS updates but nothing new there either. Finally we checked the event log for errors and found several services had died …
ASP.NET Quick Tip: Don’t let DNS Client Service Die! Read More »
We had an issue this week where an ASP.NET application was consuming 100% of CPU on a multi-tenant server. This obviously had a negative effect on all the applications hosted by this server so we dropped everything to research further. In this post, we will review the steps we took to diagnose and research the …
Diagnosing high CPU usage for an ASP.NET application in Production Read More »
We were troubleshooting an ASP.NET website issue yesterday where static files were not being served but we couldn’t figure out why. The website appeared to be running and working correctly. Other websites on the server were working correctly. The website also hosted a WCF service and it was working correctly. So part of the site …
IIS Quick Tip: Started App Pool doesn’t equal started Website Read More »
We recently received some feedback that the performance for one of our major applications had degraded overtime and needed to be improved. The application is a ASP.NET MVC 4 web application with dependencies on several WCF services which each have SQL databases. So basically the typical enterprise Microsoft web development stack. In this blog post …
Troubleshooting a recent ASP.NET MVC, WCF, SQL App Performance Issue Read More »
Most people assume they need to install WebDeploy and the Agent Service on all their application servers to use WebDeploy but that is not always the case. File Deployments First, not all deployments require the Agent Service. For example, the dirPath provider can deploy files to a remote server without using the agent. It simply …
WebDeploy Quick Tip: Deploy without installing the Agent Service Read More »