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But… will it scale?
So I was concerned that with the increasing load, the TwinsOrNot.net would end up having problems. But it looks like I overestimated things a bit. The site is hosted as an Azure Web App (by far the...
View ArticleAnd here’s the Azure secret sauce nobody tells you
So when people try to convince you to use Azure, the typical justifications are “elasticity” or “scalability”. Great, all good points but also too obvious. I want to share what I think is the golden...
View ArticleAnd because we love open source…
Here’s the v1 of TwinsOrNot.Net source released under MIT license: https://github.com/matvelloso/twinsornot Again, this was a 4 hours project. It isn’t fancy. It was done quickly after a long trip and...
View Article…and we hit 1 million page views
While I was preparing for some updates coming soon I’ve noticed in the Application Insights dashboard that we have just hit 1 million page views. How cool was that?
View ArticleTaking TwinsOrNot.net to the next level
Well that was a fun ride. I want to start this post by saying thanks for the overwhelmingly positive feedback I’ve gotten from so many of you. Now it is time to hand #TwinsOrNotRobot over to the...
View ArticleInterview with MS Dev Show about TwinsOrNot and Azure Machine Learning
I’ve had a great time talking with the folks from MS Dev Show where I could give more background on how and why TwinsOrNot was created and some basic level concepts around our Azure Machine Learning...
View ArticleSnippet from Czech Republic’s presentation
This is a part of the presentation we did in Czech Republic when I showed TwinsOrNot for the first time and then later started visualizing how the usage of the site started picking up on Application...
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Announcing the first alpha of AzureLens.net
This is another crazy idea I’ve been working on for a while, and now I’m finally getting a few volunteers to help me with: www.azurelens.net This allows the visualization of Azure based systems in a...
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Running Bitnami tracks and Ruby/MySQL on Azure
I have very little experience with Ruby, it’s not really a thing I use every day so I went around to find out how to run it on Azure. Unfortunately, Azure only runs it as IaaS. As a comparison, for...
View ArticleHow Azure hosted “Have I been pwned?” handled the Ashley Madison disaster
Troy Hunt posted a fantastic and very insightful article about how the “Have I been pwned?” site handled the drastic increase in volume due to the Ashley Madison fiasco you probably have heard about on...
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Stache-istics!
A week ago we launched www.mymoustache.net, a fun website that uses machine learning to measure your facial hair and promote men’s health. And we’ve got some nice mentions around the media at...
View ArticleDoes Visual Studio freeze your keyboard when debugging JavaScript or TypeScript?
I was having this issue for a while: When doing debug integrated with Internet Explorer, Visual Studio would just freeze my keyboard. Even outside Visual Studio, I couldn’t type anything anywhere....
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