New Relic NuGet package: Automatic building and publishing with TeamCity
I’m a big fan of New Relic server/application monitoring and last year I created a NuGet package for them. I wanted to make it easy for people to get New Relic going in an Azure environment and NuGet solves that problem. I’ve used it in production on Shuttr ever since. I approached New Relic when I began work on it, but they didn’t seem all that interested or maybe I didn’t find the right people to talk to. Just last week I was approached by…
Where’s the Azure focus Microsoft?
I moved Shuttr to Windows Azure a year or so ago and I’ve been very impressed with the platform. It’s been fast, stable, reliable, etc. There have been numerous reductions to their pricing model which have made it a lot more palatable. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/08/announcing-reduced-pricing-on-windows-azure-storage-and-compute.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/10/27/microsoft-lowers-storage-cost-for-blob-and-table-storage-in-windows-azure.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/02/14/announcing-reduced-pricing-on-sql-azure-and-new-100mb-database-option.aspx With these new pricing reductions we now have a full testing environment up in Azure permanently with a 100MB SQL Azure database and an extra small web role. It’s virtually free for that. Shuttr’s main expense is storage given that…