Contents tagged with Azure

• Fixing W3WP.exe memory leaks is easier than you think

  Tuesday, April 5, 2022

  .NET ASP.NET How-To IIS LeanSentry Performance Azure Guides Memory Troubleshooting

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  Memory leaks can be causing poor website performance, and blowing out your cloud hosting costs.
  
  You can now easily reduce memory usage and fix memory leaks, check out our Diagnose w3wp.exe memory usage guide for the step by step!
  
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• Fixing W3WP.exe memory leaks is easier than you think

  Tuesday, April 5, 2022

  .NET ASP.NET How-To IIS LeanSentry Performance Azure Guides Memory Troubleshooting

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  Memory leaks can be causing poor website performance, and blowing out your cloud hosting costs.
  
  You can now easily reduce memory usage and fix memory leaks, check out our Diagnose w3wp.exe memory usage guide for the step by step!
  
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• You may be massively overpaying for your CPUs

  Wednesday, February 23, 2022

  .NET ASP.NET How-To IIS LeanSentry Performance Uncategorized Azure CPU Guides

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  You could be throwing away 50-80% of your cloud instance CPU power, due to common .NET CPU overheads.
  
  Learn more about these and how to remove them to save on your cloud costs in our W3wp high CPU guide.
  
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• Lower cloud costs 2x with this IIS application pool recycling strategy

  Thursday, November 18, 2021

  How-To IIS Azure Cloud Recycle application pool

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  Reduce your cloud hosting costs 2x or more with a measured memory-based recycling strategy.
  
  Check out our full guide to reduce IIS worker process memory usage with LeanSentry memory diagnostics.
  
  For more tips on how to properly restart IIS websites with minimal production impact, check out our Restart IIS guide.
  
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• How-To: Remove slow Azure instances

  Wednesday, June 3, 2015

  .NET Azure How-To IIS ASP.NET LeanSentry

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  In case you missed it, LeanSentry How-To last week was about removing slow or unhealthy Azure instances from your cloud service. It’s a relatively new technique made possible by a new Azure API, that lets you remove a specific instance of your choosing. Direct link: LeanSentry How-To: Remove unhealthy or slow Azure instances Reasons to ... [Read more...]

  The post How-To: Remove slow Azure instances appeared first on Mike Volodarsky's Blog.

• Is your TableServiceContext missing IgnoreResourceNotFoundException when building with .NET Framework 3.5 System.Data.Services.Client.dll?

  Thursday, October 11, 2012

  Azure development

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  If you are developing code with Azure tables, and building against .NET 3.5 DLLs, you may encounter a compilation error like this: "The name 'IgnoreResourceNotFoundException' does not exist in the current context" At LeanSentry, we do a lot of custom Azure development to power our scalable data backend.  Now, most of our codebase is using [...]

• Visual Studio build and publishing problems after upgrading to Azure 1.7 SDK

  Tuesday, July 24, 2012

  Azure IIS LeanSentry VisualStudio

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  We recently went through upgrading www.leansentry.com to the Windows Azure SDK version 1.7, and definitely hit a fair share of problems with building and publishing afterwards.  It was a somewhat painful process taking me deep into the night to get right, and I figured I’ll share some of the things I learned along the way [...]

• Configure IIS websites on Windows Azure with startup tasks and AppCmd

  Sunday, July 15, 2012

  AppCmd Azure IIS LeanSentry

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  At LeanSentry, we use Windows Azure heavily to scale out our extensive data collection and diagnostic data processing.   Just like anyone else, we have our fair share of difficulties with deploying and configuring our web roles, esp. when it comes to more advanced configuration.  As a result, we often rely on startup tasks to [...]

• Troubleshoot Windows Azure apps with LeanSentry in seconds!

  Thursday, July 12, 2012

  Azure LeanSentry Nuget

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  We all know that getting visibility into Azure apps can be painful! Over at LeanSentry, our big goal is to make troubleshooting Azure apps just as easy as we make it for standard hosting environments. To make this easy, we just released the Azure Nuget package for LeanSentry.  With this, it literally takes 2 seconds [...]