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The NuGet.org Architecture

Jeff HandleyJuly 11, 2014Jul 11, 201407/11/14

As part of Building NuGet 3.x, we have been working on a significant re-architecture of NuGet.org. Progress has been steady and we are starting to see a return on investment. In this post, we'll compare the legacy architecture to where we'll be in the near future. Legacy Architecture One of the goals when the NuGet Gallery project was ...

Monitoring nuget.org

Jeff HandleyJune 26, 2014Jun 26, 201406/26/14

We've recently found ourselves answering the same question repeatedly: How do you monitor nuget.org? If you too are interested, here are the details. Monitoring Approaches We have two approaches for monitoring the gallery: External Monitoring For our external monitoring, we use Pingdom. You can see our public Pingdom status page at ...

NuGet Package Download Stats

Jeff HandleyJune 3, 2014Jun 3, 201406/3/14

Lies, Damned Lies, and Package Statistics We've been getting reports about package download statistics being inconsistent with packages' overall download counts and people have asked us which numbers to believe. We've investigated the inconsistencies and found that due to a very subtle bug, you can't trust the statistics right now, but you'll...

A new search experience on the Gallery

Andrew Stanton-NurseApril 11, 2014Apr 11, 201404/11/14

For a while now, we've been working on some major improvements to search. Last week we deployed these improvements to production on http://www.nuget.org. In this post, I'll describe how the new service works. However, before we discuss the new service, let's step back a bit and discuss the history of Search on NuGet.org Search via SQL Our ...

Use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org!

Andrew Stanton-NurseDecember 6, 2013Dec 6, 201312/6/13

Starting today you can use your Microsoft account to log in to NuGet.org. I don't know about you, but I want as few passwords as possible, so any opportunity to get rid of a password is great. Now, your NuGet.org password doesn't have to be one of those many passwords you have to forget/lose/etc. To associate a Microsoft account with an ...

Friendly License Names

Howard DierkingOctober 11, 2013Oct 11, 201310/11/13

Yesterday afternoon, we enabled a new feature for both the NuGet gallery and the Visual Studio client (for NuGet >= 2.7) which will display the list of license names for a package in addition to simply providing a link to the license text. The big idea behind this feature is that it will aid in the decision making process over whether or ...

Editing Package Metadata on the NuGet Gallery

Bhuvaneshwari KrishnamurthiAugust 23, 2013Aug 23, 201308/23/13

In our next deployment, which is scheduled for the week of August 26th, 2013, we have added the ability to edit package metadata at any point in time before or after publishing the package. This has been one of the frequent requests from package authors. The changes are current dpeloyed @ staging.nuget.org. You can play around with the ...

Introducing NuGet Concierge

Jeff HandleyAugust 16, 2013Aug 16, 201308/16/13

Twelve weeks ago, Microsoft's Azure Applications Platform & Tools team welcomed three 2nd-year college students, Jaspreet Bagga, Jeremiah Jekich, and Melissa McNeill, and gave them an opportunity to contribute to NuGet. Package Discovery Discovering NuGet packages can be a daunting process. The best way to do so is either via word of ...

Goodbye preview.nuget.org. Hello staging.nuget.org!

Andrew Stanton-NurseApril 19, 2013Apr 19, 201304/19/13

TL;DR The preview.nuget.org site is going away. Switch to staging.nuget.org by April 26th! Goodbye preview.nuget.org We have a version of the NuGet Gallery called "Preview" and it's been hosted at preview.nuget.org since early in the Gallery's lifetime. Until recently, our QA team used preview.nuget.org to do their testing, but we've also ...

Recent NuGet Gallery Updates

Jeff HandleyApril 11, 2013Apr 11, 201304/11/13

The NuGet Gallery crew has gotten into a rhythm of publishing updates every 2 weeks. With the increased update frequency, we found that we needed to create a changelog to highlight new features. That changelog is now available directly from within our source repository on GitHub. You can access the changelog directly here: https://github.com/...