Advancing a culture of reliability at the pace of Azure
Monday, August 31, 2020
Learn how Azure engineering teams have evolved their culture, processes, and frameworks to balance the pace of innovation with assurance of performance and quality.
Advancing Reliability
Advancing the outage experience—automation, communication, and transparency
Monday, August 17, 2020
As part of our Advancing Reliability blog series, we're outlining the investments we’re making to continue improving the outage experience.
Advancing resilience through chaos engineering and fault injection
Monday, July 27, 2020
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.
Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps
Monday, June 29, 2020
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.
Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
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.
Azure responds to COVID-19
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The global health pandemic continues to impact every organization—large or small—their employees, and the customers they serve. Over the last several months, we have seen firsthand the role that…
Advancing safe deployment practices
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
When running IT systems on-premises, you might try to ensure perfect availability by having gold-plated hardware, locking up the server room and throwing away the key. Software wise, IT would traditionally prevent as much change as possible – avoiding applying updates to the OS and/or applications because they’re too critical, and pushing back on change requests from users.
Advancing no-impact and low-impact maintenance technologies
Friday, January 3, 2020
This post continues our reliability series kicked off by my July blog post highlighting several initiatives underway to keep improving platform availability, as part of our commitment to provide a trusted set of cloud services.
Advancing Azure Active Directory availability
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Continuing our Azure reliability series to be as transparent as possible about key initiatives underway to keep improving availability, today we turn our attention to Azure Active Directory
Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Codenamed Project Tardigrade, this effort draws its inspiration from the eight-legged microscopic creature, the tardigrade also known as the water bear. Virtually impossible to kill, tardigrades can be exposed to extreme conditions, but somehow still manage to wiggle their way to survival.