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Tag: DevOps

  • Team City – Curious case of failed tests but passed build

    Recently, I had written a post on how I managed bring down build pipeline for entire organization. While I was at fault during that time, Team City should take the blame for this one. Background I had recently created a CI/CD pipeline for our new .NET Core project. As part of the build pipeline, I…

  • .NET Core – Running Background Worker on IIS

    One of the crucial pieces of the new solution that I’m working on is RabbitMQ. For those who have never heard of RabbitMQ, it is one of the most widely used open source message broker. Since our solution is hosted on-premise, RabbitMQ was one of the most natural fit for us. Our entire solution architecture…

  • When I brought down build-pipeline for entire organization

    December last year, last week before most of IT staff go on well-deserved vacation, when every team was trying to do one last deployment before code freeze, I brought down build-pipeline for almost every project in the company. Sounds scary? Here’s what happened. How it all started We are mostly a .NET shop and use…