Time is finite and as a technical founder in a startup it’s difficult to spend our time wisely. There are so many things we want to do, so many things to play with and to experiment, architecture to perfect, unit tests to write, and so much more. As time goes on, I’m starting to find
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With almost two years under my belt of having an app in production on Microsoft’s Azure I’ve learned some hard, hard lessons. One of the biggest is you need to have active testing and monitoring of your production environment from both inside and outside the environment. It sounds like a no-brainer, but it’s so far
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Recently I’ve had some persistent exceptions coming from some backend worker processes running on Azure. These worker role jobs are multi threaded processes that constantly run as long as the service has been started. Entity Framework, via a repository and unit of work pattern (thank you Ninject) is the backing persistent data store. This issue
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