Mike Volodarsky's Blog

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

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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!

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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 [...]

  • Blogging again!

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    After a long pause in writing on this blog, I am excited to be back. Its been a very crazy time at LeanServer, where we’ve been working on a number of high-scalability projects for the Windows web platform with some big companies including vevo.com, the orchard, Microsoft, and so on. However, perhaps the biggest thing [...]

  • Come build awesome web technology at LeanServer!

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    We are hiring! Come help us build Sentinel, our expert application analytics and diagnosis service for .NET apps in the cloud – and our other cutting edge web products. ————————————– NO RECRUITERS PLEASE.  If you are a recruiter, please don’t contact us.  We are not looking to work with a recruiter for this position at [...]

  • Sentinel demo at Philly Tech Meetup tonight!

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    We are coming to Philly Tech Meetup tonight to present Sentinel, which is one week away from the start of our first public beta! Its been a crazy few weeks getting everything ready for primetime, and we've accomplished a tremendous amount – getting Sentinel into the cloud, automatic installation and update infrastructure, completing our new Azure [...]

  • Join the beta! Explore, analyze, and instantly diagnose your production ASP.NET applications.

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    The Sentinel beta registration is now open! If you are developing, hosting, or maintaining an ASP.NET web application on the Windows Server / IIS 7.0 platform, you’ll definitely want to check it out. leanserver.com/sentinel The beta will for the first time make available our instant diagnosis features, which help identify the root cause of top applications [...]

  • New LeanServer.com and the LeanServer Lab

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    Since inception, LeanServer’s vision has been to unlock the performance potential of the Microsoft web platform for large scale ASP.NET and IIS applications. We are good at what we do.  Since two years ago, we’ve worked with some of the largest web sites in the world to create efficient application infrastructures that perform well and [...]

  • Join us to build an awesome web interface for our cutting edge products

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    Are you a front-end / JavaScript master?   Are you in the Philadelphia area? Do you want to design and build awesome web interfaces that bring our products to life?   For more info, check out our stack overflow post.  We are looking for someone who can start immediately as we have a lot of exciting [...]

  • LeanServer needs an amazing technical evangelist

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    LeanServer has been up to a lot this past year (also making it harder to blog).  We've built some exciting scalability tech for clients, released our first product, and have several more exciting things in the pipeline. Now, we need to take things to the next level – by getting the word out about our [...]