I’ve been trying to migrate over some content from LinkedIn posts to my blog; this is an old one but still relevant as Black Friday looms. (Or “Black November,” as many UK retailers have taken to calling it!) Don’t let your workload get taken down by lack of preparation during this chaotic land grab for… Continue reading Black Friday cloud nudge
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Major cloud outages
The whole time I’ve been a cloud and AI technical trainer, it has been funded somehow by a given hyperscale cloud provider. I always get interesting questions from my students about various multi-cloud scenarios, and I’m always interested in learning more and helping customers learn more – but the training content never accounts for the… Continue reading Major cloud outages
Remember when the Hollow Knight sequel crashed all of the game storefronts?
The new Hollow Knight game crashed the digital storefront of every major game portal it’s offered on! Hundreds of thousands if not millions of people trying to eagerly download it right on launch day. Exciting! Embarrassing? Sometimes disappointing? It can be all of these things! And also an opportunity to talk about scalable architecture and… Continue reading Remember when the Hollow Knight sequel crashed all of the game storefronts?
Black Friday cloud scaling
Friendly reminder to everyone who has important stuff deployed in the cloud – Black Friday/Cyber Monday is coming! Do you have any reservations in place that guarantee sufficient compute capability for your mission-critical IaaS apps? Do you have auto-scaling configured (both metrics-based and scheduled per historical traffic) enough to handle a potentially unexpected spike in… Continue reading Black Friday cloud scaling