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December 13, 2013Dec 13, 201312/13/13I 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 24×7 continuous service world, there really is no such thing as a “good” time to have a problem.
December 12, 2013Dec 12, 201312/12/13Today 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 mid January.
December 2, 2013Dec 2, 201312/2/13Ed 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.
November 16, 2013Nov 16, 201311/16/13Well, the last one was exhausted in a few hours. It’s great to see there are plenty of people who want to take an early peek. Here’s another one to unblock the next group of people…
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November 15, 2013Nov 15, 201311/15/13In the launch keynote on Wed, I announced, and Nicole demoed a new service on VS Online called Application Insights.
I also announced that it is in “limited preview” – meaning it’s an invitation only service for now. It’s early and we want to grow it slowly so that we can incorporate feedback early,
November 13, 2013Nov 13, 201311/13/13Today, I am in New York at the launch of Visual Studio 2013 speaking with a local audience and broadcasting around the world. In many ways it’s a celebration of the blood, sweat and tears we put into VS 2013. At the same time,
November 12, 2013Nov 12, 201311/12/13We had a nasty enough service incident on Friday that I can’t let it pass without commenting on it. If you follow my blog or the service, then you know we were doing a deployment on Friday. The natural assumption, both inside and outside Microsoft,
November 8, 2013Nov 8, 201311/8/13Because of the big launch we’re doing next week, we updated TFService with the sprint 56 deployment a little early. We deployed a couple of nice improvements today – making our charting feature easier to share and improving our load testing service.
October 26, 2013Oct 26, 201310/26/13In TFS 2013, we introduced a new feature called “Team Rooms” that keep a record of things that happen in your team – checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc. And you can have conversations about the activity directly in the team room.
October 22, 2013Oct 22, 201310/22/13If you check out the news post yesterday, you’ll see that the big change in this sprint’s deployment was to the project and account home pages. Quite honestly the account home page was mostly useless and not very visually appealing. One of the big things we focused on with these updates was improving the getting started experience.
