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Brien Posey

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Brien Posey is a best selling, freelance technology author / speaker, and Microsoft MVP. Posey is also currently training as a scientist-astronaut candidate.
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5 Mistakes Teams Make When Scaling .NET Applications

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By Brien Posey
| Eat Sleep Code Podcast
Avoid these common infrastructure-related mistakes when you’re ready to scale your .NET app to keep your performance at scale too. IT teams often assume that scaling a .NET application means moving it to a larger virtual machine or containerizing the application. While such actions do have their place, performance problems are often tied to infrastructure design rather than the application itself.
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Reading a 5.25 Inch Floppy Disk on Modern Hardware

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By Brien Posey
| Redmond Magazine Verified
Posey's Tips & Tricks A GreaseWeazle adapter and specialized software make it possible to recover files from decades-old 5.25-inch floppy disks. After recently rediscovering numerous floppy disks in my attic, I decided to see if there was a way to read their contents on a modern system. The problem of course, is that modern systems do not contain floppy disk controllers and nobody makes a USB-based 5.25-inch floppy disk (although USB based 3.5-inch drives are readily available).
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The Big Paradox -- Why Did Abused Media Survive?

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By Brien Posey
| Redmond Magazine Verified
Posey's Tips & Tricks My decades-old floppy disks defied harsh attic conditions, raising questions about media durability, bit rot and long-term storage assumptions. The year was 2006. I was preparing to move to a new home and needed to figure out what to do with a bunch of old floppy disks. I thought about throwing them out since they were already old, but since I didn't have time to sort through them all, I simply packed them into plastic storage bins.
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