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In-Memory OLTP Best Practices – Part 2

Premier DeveloperMay 6, 2020May 6, 202005/6/20

This is a continuation of our first blog post where we shared our best practices and thoughts around the following key decisions you will make when deploying the In-Memory OLTP solution.

A How-To Guide For pssdiag and SQL Nexus: Creating a pssdiag Package

Premier DeveloperApril 24, 2020Apr 24, 202004/24/20

In this post, Sr. Consultant Kendal Van Dyke explores pssdiag and SQL Nexus, free tools from Microsoft that help you capture and analyze SQL Server performance data.

Tracking Santa with Azure

Premier DeveloperJanuary 4, 2020Jan 4, 202001/4/20

Learn how Azure PaaS powers NORAD’s Santa Tracker allowing for 51 million Page Views with an average response time of 100MS across the globe.

Run Powerful Interactive Analytics Queries against Azure Service Fabric’s Internal Traces and Diagnostic Data

Premier DeveloperDecember 31, 2019Dec 31, 201912/31/19

Collect Service Fabric traces and diagnostic data with CollectServiceFabricData - a tool used by the Azure Service Fabric Support team to help diagnose and troubleshoot issues. Learn how to configure your cluster today and start using CollectServiceFabricData.

Azure VM and Disk Throttling

Premier DeveloperNovember 5, 2019Nov 5, 201911/5/19

Using Log Analytics to efficiently monitor Azure virtual machine disk throttling.

Insights to Application Awareness and Understanding

Premier DeveloperMay 16, 2019May 16, 201905/16/19

Application Insights is an Azure-hosted service which provides for in-depth application monitoring, whether running in the cloud or on-premise. It provides powerful tools for monitoring, analysis, and diagnosis, with capabilities such as live metrics streaming, tracking response times and failure rates, and much more.

Private CDN for hosting data on SharePoint for improving performance

Premier DeveloperApril 19, 2019Apr 19, 201904/19/19

When we target performance issues with SharePoint, the focus is generally on database related queries and all the requests that are being made to critical assets for the site like images, JavaScript files, CSS etc. A quick response time for these resources are vital for your page to function optimally.

Gathering real-time Perfmon Counters in a cluster

Premier DeveloperMarch 6, 2019Mar 6, 201903/6/19

Performance (aka. Perfmon) Counters are critical to understanding the health of and diagnosing issues on Windows. In recent performance and scalability testing of a solution built on top of Azure Service Fabric, we collected Perfmon Counters across 15 VMs and sent them to Log Analytics. This was very helpful; however, there were times when we wanted them to be real time.

Calculating server capacity and planning for future user growth

Premier DeveloperMarch 1, 2019Mar 1, 201903/1/19

Do I need to add more servers if my user load grows by 10% each month for the next 12 months? That is a hard question to answer. Unless you have an Application Platform Management solution, it is hard to correlate function calls to CPU time and response times.

Avoiding struct and readonly reference performance pitfalls with ErrorProne.NET

Sergey TepliakovMay 3, 2018May 3, 201805/3/18

As you may know from my previous posts "The 'in'-modifier and the readonly structs in C#" and "Performance traps of ref locals and ref returns in C#", structs are trickier then you might think. Mutability aside, the behavior of readonly and non-readonly structs in "readonly" contexts is very different. Structs are meant for high-performance...

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