Articles Tagged “Operations”
11 articles tagged “Operations”, newest first.
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Incident Response Doesn't End at Recovery — A Postmortem (Recurrence Prevention) Template for Small Development Teams
Treating an incident as over once it's fixed and apologized for guarantees you'll repeat it. This article translates the blameless postmortem for small teams...
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A Practical Guide to Process Monitor (ProcMon) — Pinpointing "Settings Not Applied" and "ACCESS DENIED" in 10 Minutes
"I fixed the config file, but nothing changed." "It worked yesterday, but won't start today." Before touching the source code, Process Monitor (ProcMon) lets...
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Date, Time, and Timezones in Business Apps — From DateTime Pitfalls to the UTC-Storage Principle and Test Design
Timestamps drift by nine hours after a server migration; only the overseas office's dates roll back to the previous day — we trace date/time incidents back t...
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Using SQLite from C# in Business Apps — WAL Mode, Exclusive Locking, Corruption Countermeasures, and When to Reach for EF Core
A practical rundown of embedding SQLite into a business Windows app with Microsoft.Data.Sqlite: connection strings and pooling, how WAL mode works, SQLITE_BU...
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How to Build and Operate Windows Services ── From Choosing Between Task Scheduler and Services to Turning a BackgroundService into a Windows Service
Should a background process become a Windows service, or is Task Scheduler enough? This guide organizes the practical design work for putting a service into ...
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When Task Scheduler Tasks Don't Run or Exit with 0x1 — Isolating the Cause and Designing for Reliable Operation
A design guide to putting Windows Task Scheduler into reliable production use: execution accounts and logon types, what 'Run whether user is logged on or not...
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What to Do Before Disposing of a Windows PC — A Practical Checklist for Data Erasure, Account Unlinking, and Backups
What to do before disposing of, transferring, selling, or returning a leased Windows PC — covering backups, data erasure, BitLocker, Microsoft accounts, OneD...
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What Is a PDB (Program Database)? — Understanding Debug Information, Symbols, and Source Link
A PDB (Program Database) file maps compiled code back to source for debuggers. Learn what's inside, whether to ship it, and how Source Link works.
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Handling Windows Impersonation Tokens Correctly — Borrowing Privileges per Thread and Reverting Safely
A practical guide to Windows impersonation tokens — access tokens, primary tokens, thread tokens, impersonation levels, RevertToSelf, and .NET's WindowsIdent...
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The Misconception That TCP Lets You Receive in the Same Units You Send — Designing Reception Around a Byte Stream
Assuming TCP delivers data in the same units as Send or Write leads to fragmentation, coalescing, garbled text, and broken protocols. This article lays out h...
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Telling GC Lag from a Memory Leak in .NET — A Practical Procedure for Observing, Comparing, and Proving Memory Growth
A procedure for determining whether growing memory in a .NET application is simply waiting on garbage collection or a genuine memory leak, using dotnet-count...