CLOUDY MUSINGS

I have watched some version of this play out enough times now that it almost feels like a rite of passage for organizations trying to mature their engineering operations. The symptoms are usually familiar. Incidents are happening too often, engineers are burned out, on-call has become something people dread, leadership wants fewer escalations, and somewhere in the middle of all that, someone says, “We need an SRE.” From there, a requisition gets approved, somebody smart gets

Picture this: you have built a castle in the cloud, filled with all your Azure workloads. Everything looks amazing, but is it safe, strong, and efficient? Will it handle a sudden rush of traffic or unexpected outages? The Azure Well-Architected Review is Microsoft’s framework to provide "best in class" cloud adoption as you undergo digital transformation. Microsoft also has a corresponding assessment tool that helps you examine and strengthen your castle. They suggest runnin