Come build awesome web technology at LeanServer!
Join our crack team of expert developers to build great web platform tech! We are looking for a passionate software developer in the Philadelphia area office. Read More...
Posted 05 September 11 06:30 by Mike Volodarsky | 2 Comments   
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Sentinel demo at Philly Tech Meetup tonight!
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 Read More...
Posted 27 July 11 01:14 by Mike Volodarsky | 3 Comments   
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Join the beta! Explore, analyze, and instantly diagnose your production ASP.NET applications.
Monitor, explore, and instantly diagnose ASP.NET applications in production. The Sentinel beta will for the first time make available our instant diagnosis features, which help identify the root cause of top applications problems - like server resource overload, application errors, and slowdowns/hangs. The beta kicks off on August 3rd. Read More...
Posted 14 July 11 03:27 by Mike Volodarsky | 14 Comments   
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New LeanServer.com and the LeanServer Lab
In the LeanServer Lab, we are making available all of the tools and frameworks that we have built for our clients, with many more scheduled to come this year. Are you running an enterprise application on the Microsoft platform? We’d love to partner with you to help your web infrastructure be the best it can be. Let us know what you are doing, and how our technology can help. Read More...
Posted 12 May 11 04:48 by Mike Volodarsky | 3 Comments   
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Join us to build an awesome web interface for our cutting edge products
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 Read More...
Posted 15 February 11 12:24 by Mike Volodarsky | 12 Comments   
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LeanServer needs an amazing technical evangelist
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 Read More...
Posted 18 January 11 06:20 by Mike Volodarsky | 10 Comments   
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Reliably uploading very large files with the Reliable Transfer Client
Improving large file uploads on the web with Reliable Transfer Client. While we initially built ScaleUP to improve upload scalability for high-traffic environments like MySpace, it soon became fairly obvious that uploads pose many other challenges - and not all of them on the server. Read More...
Posted 29 July 10 03:24 by Mike Volodarsky | 13 Comments   
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Caution when stopping and starting an IIS application pool with appcmd
When starting and stopping IIS 7 application pools from command line with appcmd.exe, you should be aware of a behavior that can sometimes lead to unintended circumstances. To explain it, lets first review what happens when you stop an application pool Read More...
Posted 12 May 10 12:24 by Mike Volodarsky | 9 Comments   
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Enabling Fast, Reliable, and Super-Scalable Uploads in ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP applications
Uploads have always historically been a major pain point for web applications, due to poor performance, spotty reliability, and framework-specific limitations. Today, LeanServer is releasing a breakthrough web upload solution for the Microsoft IIS platform that finally enables fast, reliable, and super-scalable HTTP uploads to any web application. Read More...
Posted 04 May 10 05:39 by Mike Volodarsky | 11 Comments   
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Brief History of Web Uploads
A brief history of HTTP upload support in the Microsoft web platform, and the challenges behind enabling reliable and scalable uploads for ASP.NET, ASP, and PHP applications. Read More...
Posted 04 May 10 01:59 by Mike Volodarsky | 12 Comments   
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Help LeanServer grow - become a part of our expert developer team
In the last 6 months, LeanServer has deployed several high performance web technologies with some of the biggest names in the web. It’s been a very intense ride, but totally worth it when seeing the impact we can have in a large-scale web environment Read More...
Posted 13 February 10 05:20 by Mike Volodarsky | 1 Comments   
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LeanServer needs a rockstar .NET Developer in the Philadelphia area
Things have been pretty hectic. Although I haven't blogged about this much, I've been working on LeanServer , a new company I started last year. LeanServer is a technical expert in scalability and performance for very large web sites, with multiple Read More...
Posted 09 July 09 01:08 by Mike Volodarsky | 7 Comments   
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Troubleshooting performance counter problems with PerfMon and a debugger
Performance counters are a wonderful tool when it comes to quickly assessing system health and performance of Windows subsystems. In addition to learning much about the operation of Microsoft products, exposing performance counters from your own code Read More...
Posted 24 May 09 12:17 by Mike Volodarsky | 12 Comments   
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Be a part of the energy revolution / Help Save Kilowatt Ours
I dont usually post activist stuff on the blog, but I have to make an exception in this case. A year ago, I caught a late night showing of Jeff Barrie's Killowatt Ours, a 1 hour long film about the true impact of energy production on our environment, Read More...
Posted 21 May 09 01:44 by Mike Volodarsky | 5 Comments   
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Workaround for using IIS 7 url authorization with ASP.NET roles
When using the IIS 7.0 Integrated pipeline, you gain access to a ton of cool scenarios where IIS and ASP.NET features work together to provide value for your application – regardless of the application content. Most of these features involve using Read More...
Posted 11 May 09 11:33 by Mike Volodarsky | 8 Comments   
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Until 2008, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.


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TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications


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