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July 2006 - Posts

New Twists on the Ancient Art of Persisting Application Data

(Note: If you have been keeping up with this blog it is probably apparent that the subject matter on this blog ranges widely. We have posts on topics as diverse as debugging .Net applications, web farm administration, Log Parser tips and tricks, upper
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Why Dogfood?

What is Dogfooding? Dogfooding is a Microsoft term for adopting a Microsoft product (or in a generic sense any new technology) typically while the product is still in a state of development. Microsoft Product Teams provide release builds for consumption
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Light Weight Case Studies…Up-close and Personal With Microsoft.com Operations

A couple of months ago some folks from the Architecture Evangelism group in Microsoft approached us with an interesting idea, they wanted to produce an informal video series that focused on MSCOM Operations. They bill these as “Light Weight Case Studies”,
posted by MSCOM | 1 Comments

Scaling Your Windows...and other TCP/IP Enhancements in Windows Vista/Longhorn

Our Ops team has been testing and sampling the goods that are Longhorn Server for a while now and one of the areas we're very interested in is networking.  Specifically, we're jazzed about the changes happening in the TCP/IP stack for both Vista
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Do you manage the forest or do the trees manage you?

If anyone is familiar with satisfying “needs of the moment,” it’s your local Operations team…application errors, network failures, DoS attacks, deploying new applications, etc.  A lot of times it’s simply hard to see the forest through the trees
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