Minor update to the software

I just pushed a minor update to the Daily Parker's blog engine, the thing that you're looking at right now. I fixed a couple of performance bottlenecks, so I hope the experience is a bit faster. (You can always check out the release notes for a summary of what I've done.)

I also checked the app metrics in Azure. Since this runs on Azure hardware, I can see a lot of data about how well it's running, which is how I kept track of the painful senescence of its previous incarnation. Unlike every day with the BlogEngine.NET implementation that I retired two weeks ago, this software has no glaring failures or crashes so far. So while I got it to speed up a little bit in a few places this week, it's not like before when it could take 30-40 seconds for a post to load if more than 100 people tried to read the blog at the same time.

Next up: improvements to the Search by Tag feature, followed by the new privacy levels I've planned for years. That will segue into the first "life event" data type: my reading list. Logged-in users will be able to see most of it; I'll be able to see all of it, plus private notes. I'm starting with that in order to limit the blast radius of any data leaks if I don't get the security right.

Stay tuned.