Month: November 2014
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From the frontline: CPU utilization issue on Windows Server
In early August of this year, our staging and production Octopus servers as well as our NuGet server, started to suffer from a bizarre, non-stop, repeating spikes in CPU utilization. These spikes were occurring so frequently every minute that we had service interruption/downtime as the CPU utilization was at 99% for ten to fifteen consecutive minutes at times. Since we first noticed it…
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Schedule
The past few weeks have been extremely busy for me. I had hoped to post an article or two over the past few weeks but there was too much to manage and I’ve had to push my posts to the side for the interim. This weekend, I tried moving the blog to another hosting service…
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Microsoft 'Fitness' Band released
Microsoft announced a new product that I don’t believe anyone was fully aware that was coming – a fitness tracker. By the looks of it, it appears to be a better than most of these smart watches that happen to do health monitoring. In Microsoft’s “Band” product (not sure about whether the name is good…