Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sergei B Meleshchuk

David A Nichols

Travis Muhlestein

Pavel Curtis

Guo-Wei Shieh

Robert Thomas Schumaker

Eshwar Somashekar

Puja Gomber

John Shriver Blake

Dustin B Andrews

Systems and methods of deploying one or more software components to a target computer infrastructure are disclosed. A descriptor file that declares a desired state of one or more target computing devices of a target computer infrastructure is parsed. A live state of the one or more target computing devices is obtained. A set of target computing devices having the live state different from the desired state is identified. A plan script that includes deployment commands configured to deploy one or more software components to each computing device is generated. The plan script can be optimized such that when executed the software components are deployed with higher efficiency, system stability, minimum downtime, etc.

Complex software deployment

Techniques for determining a complete address of a test point of an application from a relative address of the test point and a configuration of a system are provided. An application component that defines the application includes a relative address of the test point. An abstract configuration of a system specifies a location where an instance of the application is to be deployed within the system. The complete address of the test point is then formulated using the relative address of the test point and the indication of the location where an instance of the application is to be deployed within the system. The complete address of the test point can then be used to perform a health check of the instance of the application.

Application health checks

Interprocess buffer management is described. In an implementation, a method includes determining an amount of time to communicate a message and receive a response to the message by a first process from a second process. A buffer delay time is computed from the amount of time. Data from the first process is stored in a buffer. When the buffer delay time is reached, the buffer is sent to the second process.

Interprocess buffer management using a buffer delay time

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Sergei B Meleshchuk