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Gathering real-time Perfmon Counters in a cluster

March 6, 2019 Mar 6, 2019 03/6/19
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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.

Azure Load Balancing Solutions: A guide to help you choose the correct option

April 25, 2018 Apr 25, 2018 04/25/18
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In this post, Sr. App Dev Manager Fidelis Ekezue explain Azure Load Balancing options and highlight considerations for choosing a solution.Azure Load Balancing Solutions: When to choose which one?Microsoft Azure provides customers with many ways to load balance traffic requests to their environments. Customers have the options to choose ...

PowerShell Profiling

March 18, 2018 Mar 18, 2018 03/18/18
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In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Lizet Pena De Sola shows us how to analyze the performance of PowerShell scripts to pinpoint code with high CPU consumption and optimize resource usage.As part of my job I help developers take a closer look at the source code and analyze it under the “microscope”. Part of this analysis is...

Optimize your Azure spend

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18
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In this post, App Dev Manager Priti Kalani shares insight toward optimizing the services you deploy and manage in the Microsoft cloud.Azure tools to optimize and manage your cloud spendingAzure has made deploying cloud infrastructure and applications convenient and productive for organizations. Azure also provides tools to help you with ...

Speed Matters – Turbo Charging Data Services with EF Core

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer consultant Rob Vettor brings us this post on performance of the new Entity Framework Core. Entity Framework Core (EF Core) has arrived and brings with it several long-awaited improvements. Officially released this past June, EF Core is a complete rewrite of the Entity Framework. While the high-level developer APIs (...

Xamarin Forms: Avoiding data binding in ListViews

July 18, 2016 Jul 18, 2016 07/18/16
Monu Bambroo
In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Bill Reiss shows us how to avoid data binding in List Views for Xamarin Forms.This post was inspired by Jason Smith’s Evolve session discussing performance in Xamarin Forms. Jason gives a lot of great information and I highly recommend watching the video. At one point he ...

.NET Lifecycle, Roadmap, and Announcements

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15
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In this post, Application Developer Managers, Joe Irizarry and Reed Robison provide an update on .NET – spanning new announcements, roadmap updates, and important support lifecycle changes.With the release of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6 last week, it might be a good time to review upcoming support lifecycle changes as ...