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Monitoring and Managing Production Applications featured post

Monitoring and Managing Production Applications

Recovering from a production site outage during peak hours can be a daunting task. While everyone wants a 100% uptime, it can be near impossible because of things out of our hands. However, we can plan for these potential outages and architect the application and infrastructure to allow for a quick recovery.

Back-end / DevOps

WCF and the Azure Service Bus featured post

WCF and the Azure Service Bus

Are you working towards your MCSD: Web Applications Certification like me? If so and you are getting ready for the last exam in the series, Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services (70-487) check out this post about getting familiar with WCF and the Azure Service Bus.

Back-end

Powershell, VSO Rest API and vNext Builds featured post

Powershell, VSO Rest API and vNext Builds

Let’s take a look at a simple example of using the Visual Studio Online REST API to retrieve information about a build using PowerShell. Then we’ll take a look at how we can use the information we retrieved in a vNext build step.

DevOps

SQL Server Reporting Services Series – Part III: Parameters featured post

SQL Server Reporting Services Series – Part III: Parameters

This is the third post in a series about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). One of the other important topics of SSRS is adding parameters to a report which lets you filter the data down to a smaller group. As with many things, parameters can be simple selections or can be more complicated with cascading selections that depend on other parameters.

Back-end