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Geoff Webber Cross
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Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.
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Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
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Azure periodic service activities


These are activities that should be performed periodically to ensure the health of the system:

  • Check the individual monitoring dashboards for any high or unusual metric patterns so that any performance issues can be addressed.

  • Check whether the database has sufficient capacity so that storage can be adjusted if required.

  • Rebuild database table indexes (this could be done on a scheduled task as there is no SQL agent in SQL Azure). SQL Azure Databases, by default, are set to automatically recompute statistics, so this is not required.

  • Archive and prune data that may no longer be needed to save on storage costs.

  • Check whether the mobile service push notifications are receiving all broadcast notifications, and user-specific notifications are received by a test user.

  • Touch-test application UIs to make sure there are no visual issues and everything is working as expected; problems may occur if there is an issue with some backend web services or storage.

  • Evaluate service...

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Geoff Webber Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 10 years' experience in the software industry, working in manufacturing, electronics, and other engineering disciplines. He has experience of building enterprise and smaller .NET systems on Azure and other platforms. He also has commercial and personal experience of developing Windows 8 and Windows Phone applications. He has authored Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Packt Publishing.
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Geoff Webber-Cross

Geoff Webber-Cross has over 16 years' software development experience, working in a variety of sectors on Windows, web, and mobile applications. He has worked on XAML/MVVM applications since the days of Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 and has been building Xamarin apps commercially for a number of years. Geoff is also the author of two books for Packt: Learning Microsoft Azure and Learning Windows Azure Mobile Services for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
Read more about Geoff Webber-Cross