Time for the monthly installment again :) I've been swamped lately and not able to make progress on my "Managing Quality" series. I'll get back to that shortly. This is the first monthly dogfood statistics update since the upgrade of the DevDiv dogfood server on 3/3. So, it’s going to be a bit longer than usual. Monday was a bit h...
The first week of the Orcas Dogfood server upgrade will end today. It's been a fantastic (if hectic) week. After the initial spate of issues we hit Monday, it quieted down pretty quickly. We got the significant issues fixed on Tuesday and have been making small performance patches all week. We're down to the last half dozen ...
The deployment of Orcas to the DevDiv dogfood server finished ahead of schedule this weekend. We completed the procedure by Saturday night thanks to hard work from the IT team and key people on the TFS team assisting. We spent Sunday shaking out a couple of issues with the system and went live for real early Monday. As of right no...
I've seen some cool posts on our product over the past few days that I wanted to bring to your attention. I also wanted to mention that this weekend is a big weekend for us. This is the weekend that we upgrade the DevDiv TFS server to an Orcas build. We've spent the last month preparing for it - testing, perf testing, load testing,...
Overall, it's been a pretty uneventful month for the dogfood server. The biggest milestone is that we are now consistently over 1,000 active users on the system. Files & Folders are approaching the 100M mark and should hit it within the next few months for sure. I've added a new statistic this month - Merge history. That's how...
Ever since we started dogfooding TFS internally, I've been working on a tool I call TFSServerManager. It's a bit of a misnomer because it's not really a management tool as much as it is an operations tool. In the very early days it started as a tool to help me produce the dogfood statistics you see on my blog every month - I've been sen...
I skipped the December dogfood update because the activity numbers were so skewed at the end of the month by people’s vacations. There’s nothing that particularly stands out about the dogfood server over the last month. It continues to grow. Availability has been good. Performance continues to improve. ...
I’m a bit early with my statistics this month but I didn’t want to get too close to Thanksgiving. Activity is down this month (particularly in work item tracking) but # of users is up. The primary reason is some fixes to internal tools that have dropped the load they apply on the server by almost a factor of 10. D...
A lot has been happening this last month. We've pretty much locked down TFS2005 SP1 and have been making good progress on the Orcas release. A couple of weeks ago I posted about the performance improvements coming in Orcas - the picture there only continues to get better as we continue to find small things to tune. In the next few...
Dogfood activity continues to be brisk but growth has slowed some in the last month. I think the ramp from the onboarding of so many Orcas feature crews is behind us and the growth will be slower until we bring on more PUs. Overall performance and availability have been good but we continue to struggle with some issues. I wanted to let ...
