Monday, February 17, 2003

ASP.NET Performance Monitoring, and When to Alert Administrators: Discusses which performance counters are most helpful in diagnosing stress and performance issues in Microsoft ASP.NET applications, what thresholds should be set in order to alert administrators to problems, and other resources that can be used to monitor the health of an ASP.NET application. * [Archipelago] 6:12:08 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Radio: How to backup and restore your weblog.  [Scripting News] 5:47:33 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Monday Morning. Alan Mather is doing most of his posts on the weekends these days and was very busy this weekend.  He quotes Mark Forman who said, “We’re looking for people who can give us solutions. Now we have too many people with an invested interest in the status quo ... IT projects will need managers who can motivate employees and build on recent progress in overcoming a cultural resistance to change ... IT managers will have to sharpen their skills in making good business cases for project funding and in avoiding cost overruns, Forman said. They will need to find ways to save money by taking advantage of buying large quantities, standardizing equipment, using existing technology to its full capacity and eliminating redundant systems." Alan also creates a castle metaphor, comparing the silos we have created in government information systems to medeival fortifications: The real problem is that government (and I’m not singling out any one country here) is fragmented, not given to working in cross-functional, let alone cross-departmental, teams. Government is composed not of silos anymore but of well-defended, heavily reinforced forts. Ever since Cromwell signed away the power of the monarchy in 16 hundred and whatever has this been the case. Breaking down the walls of these forts requires a few hundred cannons and a big stack of balls - not just of the cannon variety either. I don't know if we can always break down the walls, but we can begin to network these fortifications together better by understanding their purpose, taking advantage of their strengths and creating constructive communication ties with their defenders.  These existing systems become part of the infrastructure.  Using XML and web services, we build integrated delivery systems on top of this existing architechture and then redefine it's role in the enterprise. [David Fletcher's Government and Technology Weblog] 3:25:18 PM    trackback []     Articulate []