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Azure just keeps having problems. And a recent incident happened while their CEO was speaking at a conference in Sydney “focused on showing off how Microsoft’s cloud technology can have a transformative impact on businesses.” While it’s easy to pile on with Azure, the situation is endemic to the cloud environment. Not withstanding my recent post, cloud implementations still…
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If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I worry about cloud availability. However, most of the time the big cloud providers have more availability and redundancy capability than almost any enterprise can provide. For an example, Microsoft recently had an outage of its Multifactor Authentication (MFA) for Azure and Office 365 users in North…
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There was a recent article in Quartz about Elon Musk’s quest for “undesign.” When Elon Musk leads engineering meetings at SpaceX, he says, “the thing I am most impressed with is, what did you undesign?” Which is to say, what complications did engineers remove? How did they simplify the vehicle? Without getting sidetracked on Elon Musk, I…