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How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Automation at Scale: Migrating 200K Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9

Salesforce is migrating 200,000 machines to RHEL 9, an advanced OS with enhanced performance that drives integration of next-gen hardware.

Detecting & Preventing Rogue Azure Subscriptions

In this blog post we will cover why rogue subscriptions are problematic and revisit a solution published a couple of years ago on Microsoft's Tech Community. Finally, we will conclude with some hardening recommendations to restrict the creation and importation of Azure subscriptions.

Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith: Amazon internal case study raises eyebrows • DEVCLASS

An Amazon case study from the Prime Video team has caused some surprise and amusement in the developer […]

Uptime Guarantees — A Pragmatic Perspective

Engineers won't tell you this. It's not how they think. They love working on nice juicy problems, and being able to put them on their CVs. 💡 Engineering for 99.5% uptime is more cost-effective than 99.99% for most startups! "But why shouldn’t my engineers strive for excellence?" They should, but 99.99% guaranteed uptime cannot be achie...

Generating Azure Resource Names According to Naming Convention with #ChatGPT

If you are working with Microsoft Azure, the common task is creating a set of Azure services within resource group.

What is Azure Synapse ?

Azure Synapse is a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives you the…

Microsoft 365 Adoption Documents and Guides

A collection of the best resources I’ve seen on the subject 😉

Azure Host OS – Cloud Host

Have you ever wondered how we run the Azure nodes in the data center? How does Windows look on Azure hosts? 

Security state of the Azure DevOps Marketplace

This report focusses on the Azure Pipelines extensions in the Marketplace. At the time of compiling the report there are 1460 extensions in the "Azure Pipelines" category. More than 500 have one or more vulnerabilities or vulnerable dependencies.

Complexity leads to cloud outages. Here’s the proof

Complexity is a natural byproduct of a highly heterogeneous and distributed architecture. Now we better understand its impact.

How to Roll Your Kafka Cluster With Zero Downtime and No Data Loss

Let’s get the balance right — build and design your infrastructure for flexibility

The Importance of Just-in-Time Access for Least Privilege in the Cloud

Understanding Azure DNS Private Resolver

Overview of Azure’s DNS Private Resolver service and common scenarios.

Getting Started with Azure Stack HCI

Originally published at https://adamtheautomator.com by Thomas Bründl on October 11, 2022.