CLOUDY MUSINGS

You'd be surprised by the kinds of questions I get from customers these days. A lot of them start in places that feel familiar enough. Someone wants to understand Microsoft's decision to deprecate WSUS. Someone else is trying to figure out whether Azure Update Manager makes sense for their environment. Another customer is looking at Linux for the first time after spending most of their career in Windows-centric shops. On the surface, those sound like completely different conv

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

All code for this blog can be found here . So this is still relevant in 2025. Having worked at Microsoft, I always believed customers...

Containers and Kubernetes often arrive in organizations with big promises. I can't tell you the amount of customers I work with who...

I am genuinely starting to realize there's still a lot of confusion out there and arguably I'm also pretty confused myself a lot of days...