The scenarios in which you can and cannot move an Azure App Service are nicely documented here “App Service limitations”. I also wrote an article about this as well here “Moving an Azure App Service”. It is possible to move your Azure App Service between subscriptions and resource groups. Like I have stated many times […]
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How to optimize Azure App Service AlwaysOn, cold start, warm up request
When you enable AlwaysOn it means that the application pool will not be shutdown after the idle timeout threshold is breached. I wrote about this threshold here and here. The point here is that after a cold start of your application, AlwaysOn will send a request to the ROOT of your application. Whatever file is […]
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An HTTP status code of 502 – Bad Gateway means “The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.” I interpret that to mean that there is a server (server A) between my client and the server (server B) […]
Read More →Redis Cache on Azure App Service is slow
I worked on this issue and wanted to write it down because I love it when I can execute the WinDbg commands in my “Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used” article and find the reason for the problem. I executed !sos.threadpool and did see that the CPUs were pretty high, as seen […]
Read More →Where are my Azure Functions, disappeared
Which way did he go George, which way did he go? (*) When you create an Azure Function App, a requirement to complete the operation is the selection or creation of an Azure Storage Account where the content (code, json, etc…), required to run the Azure Functions are to be stored. Make sure the Storage […]
Read More →Why does my Azure Function sometimes stop being triggered
Azure is so awesome because the features it provides are so very dynamic and flexible. The platform provides a starting point for the fruition of ideas, ideas only limited by ones imagination. With its dynamic nature and the flexibility it delivers to consumers, sometimes you just need a note to get your ideas optimally flowing […]
Read More →Find method parameters with WinDbg
I wrote this article, see the bottom where I do the memory dump analysis and wanted to expand on it some. Simply, if you are running managed code then you can decompile the source and see what the value of the Int32 passed to the Sleep() method, Figure 1. I explained how to save the […]
Read More →Named Pipes and Azure App Services
According to this “Operating system functionality on Azure App Service” and my interpretation, it means if you attempt to use named pipes (*)(*) for anything other than inter-process communications (*) that it will not work. I was coding some stuff and was getting these errors: SqlException: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a […]
Read More →Adding existing projects to an existing solution hosted on GitHub
I have written number of articles about configuring GitHub and deploying some code to it. Here is a list of them just in case you want to get some perspectives and better know where I am coming from. Setting up and using GitHub in Visual Studio 2017 Setting up and using GitHub in Visual Studio […]
Read More →System.Diagnostics.Trace Application Logging Log Stream on Azure App Service Function App
Here is what I wanted to do. Add some code like this to my ASP.NET application. using System.Diagnostics; … System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() in the Page_Load method”); Trace.Write(“Trace.Write() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace .TraceInformation(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceInformation() in the Page_Load method”); Then I wanted to write those logs out to […]
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