I say this partially because it's no secret that I'm fairly pro MS. But specifically because I used to work on Maintenance and Support, and the worst thing is when you have back-seat coders misdiagnosing the problem.
For me it's not just waffles, I have co-workers with azure uptime (simple html hosting as a time) that came nowhere near the SLA...they pulled out and went elsewhere
the problem was getting absolutely no explanation from MS and took over a week to get answers to any support requests, not sure if they're having trouble getting the support up to the level it needs since they're just starting out or what....but you couldn't run a commerce site on there a while back, hopefully it's improved now
Yeah, Azure's kind of terrible, but I'd say one of the biggest problems is that they have so little support for it, that even when it's not their fault, it still seems like it.
the theory is that I will somehow be able to open a ticket with MS ... personally I have recommended multiple times to move of Azure ...
I just got another crash today and was able to get a bit more diagnostics using IntelliTrace
What I am seeing:
1. The "server busy" state is triggered by a barrage of OData calls (they trigger a bunch of underlying connections to SQL Azure)
2. We already have a throttle in place that stops clients from performing more than 1 request a second
3. Memory seems fine when Azure flips this to busy
4. There are a series of SqlExceptions preceding the fault: "The client was unable to establish a connections because of an error during connection intialization"
@waffles: Well, that's perfect then. SO is the exact target market they want. Because it is filled with both the coders and the admins who will choose Azure IF given a reason.
So you have to lay in more pressure about the fact that even if you don't leave, the downtime and lack of response will be noted by all their possible clients.
well, I hope I manage to get an official ticket opened on this ... I went to the support portal today and was afraid, so Ill leave that till tomorrow. too many buttons and options
now ... how do you open a ticket ... its a maze of links
also I know what happens in level one support, they basically try to convince you that its your fault and you have no idea what you are doing, stuff is pretty sad till it escalates up the chain
This product may not have all the support options that are available online. To obtain support, choose one of the following options: Call (800) 936-5700 for more help. ... just shoot me
Anyone tackling anything puzzling or just down-right bad at the moment...? I'm attempting to refactor a 200 line method that a co-dev has butchered. (It only used to be 10 lines until a week ago.)
The built-in WebBrowser Control in Visual Studio apparently only supports up to IE4. When wrapping your typical jQuery/jQuery-UI, some layout errors abound. Is there an easy way to convert the webpage's layout to IE4 friendly (I'd imagine, table-structure rather than div-based etc)?
I seriously need to upgrade this app to .Net4.0. I hate anon delegates in lists: List<FilterEntity> recipeFilters = this.CurrentFilters.FindAll(delegate(FilterEntity f) { return f.FilterType == RP_FilterType.Recipe; });
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The only thing I did was taking a suggested (and only partially implemented) feature and simulated it with the currently available tools:
I set the room to "read-only" for a minute and posted the message asking to move the non-chat related discussion out of the chat feedback room.
That's precis...
Based on this comment, I have started building a unicorn avatar maker. It's still quite ugly, and the results aren't different enough yet, but this is what it looks like so far:
Question list / Joel's profile (removed the images from here to make this thing a little shorter).
Is this just way t...
@spouls He was certainly blunt, but everyone respected that he was a serious expert his field (C++). I'm frustrated he left because clearly it got to be so bad that he felt he could NEVER return.
Since the Team keeps deleting questions with lots of discussion both relevant and/or historical, and we can't search on deleted questions, and they lock some of them so that they cannot be undeleted, I'm putting this question out, just for links to be posted, so that those 10ks who want to find t...
The built-in WebBrowser Control in Visual Studio apparently only supports up to IE4. When wrapping your typical jQuery/jQuery-UI, some layout errors abound. Is there an easy way to convert the webpage's layout to IE4 friendly (I'd imagine, table-structure rather than div-based etc)?
