Category: Azure

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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Azure Dashboards: They need to get better

I’ve never really taken the Azure Dashboards seriously, or the Metrics page really. For the uninitiated the Dashboard and Metrics pages inside Azure are views into your Cloud Service, VM, Web App, etc. They give you some key metrics about the resource utilization or performance of your service. Great right, well personally I’ve always felt
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