Best posts made by dean-houston

@atripp @joshuagilman_1054

TIL that PowerShell can use internal CLR generic reference type names like that! But really, please don't do that...

• [System.Nullable``1[[System.Int32]]]
• [Nullable[int]]

... much easier to read

You can ignore this error; for whatever reason, the NuGet client unexpectedly terminated the connection, and the result was that ProGEt stopped writing bytes. Not really anything to worry about.

The diagnostic center isn't for proactive-monitoring, more for diagnostic purposes. So ulnless users are reporting a problem, you don't need to check it.

Hi @jimbobmcgee ,

Thanks for all the details; we plan to review/investigate this via OT-518 in an upcoming maintenance release, likely in the next few two-week cycles.

-- Dean

Hi @andreas-unverdorben_1551 ,

npmjs.org primarily serves static content and runs on massive server farms running in Microsoft's datacenters.

Your ProGet server is much less powerful and does not serve static content. Not only is every request is dynamic (authentication, authorization, vulnerability checking, license checking, etc), but most requests (such as "what is the latest version of package X") need to be forwarded to npmjs.org and aggregated with local data.

So, a much less powerful server doing a lot more processing is going to be a little slower ;)

Running ProGet in a server cluster will certainly help.

Cheers,
Dean

Hi @kichikawa_2913,

We see multiple connectors pretty often, and it rarely presents a problem.

The main downside comes in the overhead of aggregation; for some queries like "list all package versions", each connector will need to be queried and have the results aggregated. So it could cause performance issues for for very high-traffic feeds - at least that's what we see on the support side of things.

However, if you plan on using a package-approval workflow, then it won't be a problem, as your approved-npm feed wouldn't have any connectors.

Hope that gives some insight,

Dean

@joel-shuman_8427 thanks for the heads up!

I just updated it
https://github.com/Inedo/inedo-docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Hi mwatt_5816,

BuildMaster does support "release-less" builds, though you may need to enable it under the application's Settings > Configure Build & Release Features > Set Release Usage to optional. That will allow you to create a build that's not associated with a release.

It's also possible to do "ad-hoc" builds (i.e. builds with no pipeline), but we don't make it easy to do in the UI because it's almost always a mistake (once you already have pipelines configured). So in your case, I think you should create a secondary pipeline for this purpose.

-- Dean