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In-Memory OLTP Best Practices – Part 2

Developer Support May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 05/6/20

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

Developer Support April 24, 2020 Apr 24, 2020 04/24/20

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

Developer Support January 4, 2020 Jan 4, 2020 01/4/20

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

Developer Support December 31, 2019 Dec 31, 2019 12/31/19

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

Developer Support November 5, 2019 Nov 5, 2019 11/5/19

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

Insights to Application Awareness and Understanding

Developer Support May 16, 2019 May 16, 2019 05/16/19

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

Developer Support April 19, 2019 Apr 19, 2019 04/19/19

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

Developer Support March 6, 2019 Mar 6, 2019 03/6/19

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

Developer Support March 1, 2019 Mar 1, 2019 03/1/19

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 Tepliakov May 3, 2018 May 3, 2018 05/3/18

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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