CLOUDY MUSINGS

Let me tell you about a moment that happens to almost everyone working with Azure networking. You're designing a network, you discover service endpoints, and you think "Great! This keeps my traffic on Microsoft's backbone instead of the public internet." You enable them for Storage, SQL, maybe Key Vault. Everything makes sense. Then you stumble across service endpoint policies and think "Oh cool, I can add more control to all these services!" You start setting them up for SQ

There is a very particular flavor of frustration that only appears in identity work. I used to work in the identity and network access division at Microsoft, so my joke was I needed to move faster over the course of my career, because I've landed smack dab in identity and by proxy security most of my career. The moment I'm talking about is when Microsoft Authenticator calmly informs you that you have "too many devices registered." You know with absolute clarity that this is i

There is a moment every cloud engineer seemingly has, whether they admit it or not. You open an application and something feels strange. A record you just saved is not there yet, a dashboard shows two different answers depending on where you look, or a system insists an action never happened even though you just performed it. At some point, a smart sounding person says “eventual consistency,” everyone nods, and the conversation moves on without anyone actually feeling satisfi