Month: June 2015

.Net’s Stagnation and Brain Drain

Recently Justin Angel posted an essay he’d written titled “The Collapse of the .Net Ecosystem, V3”. It’s an interesting read and very well could be flawed in many meaningful, statically and logical ways. But if you haven’t popped your head up in a while there are noticeably less .Net jobs then there were in 2006-2010.
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Trying Meteor on Azure Web Apps\Websites

I’ve been starting to play around with NodeJS, the MEAN stack and now recently Meteor. As a developer, I’d like another tool in my belt. I’ve got the .Net Framework stack down, but what if I had to use something else. I’m not a huge fan of Java, although Java 8/9 looks interesting with LINQ
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Azure CPU Linear Growth/Ramp Up Issue

Recently Resgrid experienced an issue with our backend cloud service web role instances. After a deployment our CPU, in all instances, would ramp up from a normal of around 10% to over 90% stay there for a while then ‘reset’ back to 10% and begin the process again. Above is a screen shot of the
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