Read this insightful article on introduction to Azure data factory, benefits, and best practices for getting started with ADF.

This tutorial takes you through the process of creating an AWS Lambda function that goes through EC2 cycles and creates AMIs for instances with tags.

Learn step by step how to build a Twitter leaderboard app with Redis and AWS lambda.

Looking over the top 11 cloud platforms for Internet of Things (IoT), we highlight the importance of scalability, cost, and connectivity. Click here for more.

In this post, see how to allow for the use of a mix of Kubernetes pods and virtual machines.

It’s been a busy week here for Brian and I, lots of stuff going on. We did have time to collect some links however, which I share with you now. Enjoy! 8 Essential Best Practices in Windows Azure Blog Storage: “Throughout this article I’ll discuss 8 essential best practices to support you in maintaining and controlling both cost and availability. In this article I’ll look only at the best practices for the Public Containers inside Blob Storage and in future articles we’ll talk about the other types of storage.” How to Choose Between Windows Azure Queues, Windows Azure Service Bus Queues: “The article helps you compare and contrast the respective technologies and be able to make a more informed decision about which solution best meets your needs.” Why is Windows Azure Deployment Slow Compared to Heroku?: This is a balanced look at Azure and Heroku that offers great insight into why deployment times differ. So what does “The Cloud” mean now?: A humorous, but still serious, look at what “The Cloud” means to different people. Beta of Window Phone Toolkit for Amazon Web Services released: This move, IMHO, speaks volumes about Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability. Hosting your Moodle on Windows Azure: A short post highlighting 2 projects that allow you to hose Moodle on Azure. Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different (Meetup): If you are in the Boston area on Feb. 7th, this looks like it would be a good Meetup to attend. NougakuDoCompanion: A “Ruby on Rails” companion for Windows Azure: A short post that highlights a project that makes hosting RoR apps on Azure easy. Handling two known issues with Windows Azure node.js SDK 0.5.2: Workarounds for an exception while testing your node.js app in the Compute Emulator and for troubles with publishing a MongoDB-enabled node.js app to Azure. A chat with Nick Quaranto about rubygems.org internals: Q&A about what goes on inside RubyGems.org to make the magic happen. Prompts and Directories - Even Better Git (and Mercurial) with PowerShell: Scott Hanselman talks about using PowerShell to work with Git and Mercurial. The client-side templating throwdown: mustache, handlebars, dust.js, and more: There’s a ton of templating solutions out there, Veena Basavaraj discusses how LinkedIn picked dust.js as it’s client-side templating solution. Beautiful docs: A collection of well-written documentation to serve as examples to those of us who write docs. Backbone.js: A Roundup for Beginners: A collection of links useful for learning how to work with Backbone.js. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/02/03/pie-in-the-sky-february-3rd-2012.aspx

In this article, take a deep-dive into an exploration of AWS to build a serverless eCommerce platform.

AWS Glue interactive session eradicates the complexity of setting up the infrastructure by providing serverless interactive access to AWS Glue Jobs through Jupyter Notebooks.

When you are running apps in cloud environments like AWS, some observability challenges pop up. In this podcast, learn about some of those challenges.

In this post, unpack the Atlassian outage of April 2022, and take a look at what it stands to teach Site Reliability Engineers.

This is a Go Lambda function that's packaged and deployed using AWS SAM.

This quick-start guide demonstrates how to use AWS Cloud9 IDE to help you get up and running with MemoryDB for Redis.

Deploy a Serverless backend for Slack using Infrastructure-as-code (IaaC).

There are three primary reasons for choosing AWS S3: affordability, speed, and reliability. Here, learn how to upload files to AWS S3 in JMeter using Groovy.

What are SREs? What are platform engineers? How is each role similar and different? This article explains the answers to each question.

If you think the benefits of data observability stop at cost-cutting or avoiding bad outcomes, you’re only looking at half of the equation.

Resiliency considerations get complex even for the most basic scenarios and require careful systems thinking and architecture decisions.

We continue to address the patterns and considerations for resilience in cloud-native serverless systems with 5 additional scenarios.

A Slack app that integrates with the Giphy API.

Open-source Cadence was developed by Uber and based on the AWS SWF (Simple Workflow Service). It's designed to be highly fault-tolerant and scalable.