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		nathanaldensr on Sept 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core Good Lord, yes. It takes forever for my TeamCity build agent AMIs to spin up and actually connect to the TeamCity server. It would be awesome to replace that bulky Windows build agent with a Linux one.

swozey on Sept 3, 2015 [–]

I gave up on activating windows agents programatically, I keep one powerful windows build server running, it spins down at night after regression testing, then back on during the day when employees come into the office. The pocketbook definitely feels it, though.

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