Thought leadership

In today’s environment, software development excellence is becoming even more critical for business success.

Learn how Azure engineering teams have evolved their culture, processes, and frameworks to balance the pace of innovation with assurance of performance and quality.

The trend toward the use of massive AI models to power a large number of tasks is changing how AI is built and applied to enable powerful new capabilities.

As part of our Advancing Reliability blog series, we’re outlining the investments we’re making to continue improving the outage experience.

This post is designed to get you thinking about how best to validate typical failure conditions, including examples of how we at Microsoft validate our own systems.

As you move through assessments and plan your migration, it is critical to get buy in from your CFO and other financial stakeholders—even more so in today’s challenging macro-climate.

As Mark mentioned when he authored the Advancing Reliability blog series, building and operating a global cloud infrastructure at the scale of Azure is a complex task with hundreds of ever-evolving service components, spanning more than 160 datacenters and across more than 60 regions.

In part one of our two-part series, we will peek behind the Azure.com web page to show you how we think about running a major brand website on a global scale.

In part two of our two-part series we share our blueprint, so you can learn from our experience building a website on global scale and move forward with your own website transformation.

Countries around the world are placing more compliance requirements on organizations of all types, and customers want to more easily understand which compliance offerings are available in their…

The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve.

Scale, resiliency, and performance do not happen overnight—it takes sustained and deliberate investment, day over day, and a performance-first mindset to build products that delight our users.