I got called out in email, I think reasonably appropriately, for using the term “off-times” when referring to choosing a better time to do our sprintly upgrades. In a 24x7 continuous service world, there really is no such thing as a “good” time to have a problem. I’ve written in the past about the extensive lengths to which we’ve gone to ensure t...
Today we did our last deployment of 2013 (Sprint 57). You can read about it here: http://visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2013-dec-11-vso Our next deployment would normally fall very close to the Christmas holiday and to avoid that, we’ll be skipping the Sprint 58 deployment and just rolling all of that work into the Sprint 59 deployment in ...
We are doing a pretty quick turn of the crank on VS 2013 Update 1. Originally we were thinking our first Update would take a little longer but for a variety of reasons (most prominently the feedback about VS supporting versions of IE before IE 10), we decided to do a quick initial Update focused on just some key bug fixes. Our first sig...
Ed Glas, Bill Barnett and Jiange Sun published a detailed write up of their experiences load testing VSOnline/TFS. It’s a good read because they go into a lot of the reasons for the things they do and also talk about things they’ve tried that didn’t work. They’ve now moved almost all of their load testing to the ...
And an embarrassing moment. I’ve gotten some teasing about wearing a tie at the French Visual Studio 2013 launch event in Paris this week. There are some pictures of me floating around online. It’s certainly a rare occurrence. I don’t wear a tie more than a couple of times a year. I brought it on this trip ...
Brian Keller has released the RTM version of his incredibly useful demo VM. He loads just about everything you could want to demo onto it and makes it easy to see how anything in VS or TFS works. Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2013/08/02/visual-studio-2013-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs...
We are running a couple of surveys on Visual Studio to collect feedback for our next release cycle. We’d appreciate any feedback you have. Here are the links to the surveys on the VS blog. Thanks, Brian
Either I’m going to get increasingly good at apologizing to fewer and fewer people or we’re going to get better at this. I vote for the later. We’ve had some issues with the service over the past week and a half. I feel terrible about it and I can’t apologize enough. It’s the biggest incident we’ve had since the instability created by our ser...
I don’t get asked that question too often but I do occasionally and, as the service matures, I know I’ll get asked it more and more so it’s been on my mind. I was looking at some data yesterday about some of our largest tenants. No, I wasn’t looking at any of their IP (I can’t) but I was looking at some met...
Overall, tire kicking on Application Insights is going well and the invitation codes continue to get used up pretty quickly. We’ve now got many hundreds of accounts enabled so I’m probably going to slow down a bit on handing out invitation codes. But… Here’s another one for another opportunity: VSInsights2584413...
