Customize your Azure Portal – Your Azure, Your Way

It isn’t just Burger King that let’s you “have it your way” today as we see the launch of the fully customizable Azure Cloud dashboard option.  It’s a very cool way to set up a portal that makes your goto items easy to see and quick to access.  One of the most common complaints among … Read more

Oracle Ravello Blogger Day 2 #RBD2 – Oracle Cloud Infrastucture

Oracle is driving hard towards customer-focused cloud. The amount of listening being done by the product teams is showing in the product roadmap that we saw at the (Ravello Blogger Day 2) #RBD2 event in Redwood City, CA this week. This event features a broad array of industry folks who are in vendors, ISVs, VARs … Read more

We’re Not Building a Piano: Full-Stack Infrastructure Understanding – Part 2

In our previous post (Design Patterns for Resilient Application Infrastructure – Part 1) we explored the basics of N+1 concept for node loss in a cluster and discussed what our series is going to cover. Let’s start by mapping out the full-stack view as the IT architect will need to. An IT architect needs to … Read more

We’re Not Building a Piano: Design Patterns for Resilient Application Infrastructure – Part 1

When I was doing work as a general contractor and building a house, one of the teams I worked with was a Father-Son pair who were helping to build the house with me, and the owner of the house. The son of the team was nicknamed “Lumpy” and he was learning the trade. When Lumpy … Read more