A retail operations team once called me because their order-sync job had stopped working overnight. A developer had pasted the full function URL, including the access key, into a shared spreadsheet so the integration team could use it. Someone later copied that sheet into a ticket, the ticket went to a contractor, and the key … Read more >>
A regional insurance company asked me to fix its customer portal login. Customers had to create a username and password in a custom database, and the help desk reset about 200 passwords a week. Worse, the passwords sat in a table that a contractor had exported to a spreadsheet. We needed a real customer identity … Read more >>
A client I worked with a few years back had a classic problem: every time a file landed in a storage container, someone had to manually write a script to grab it, parse it, and push the result into a database. It worked, until it didn’t. The script broke during a holiday weekend, nobody noticed … Read more >>
A finance team called me on a Monday morning because their invoice export had not run. The job was supposed to fire at 6:00 a.m. Eastern, every weekday. The developer had copied a five-field Linux cron line into the function, and the app failed to start on deploy. When he fixed it, the job ran … Read more >>
I’ll provide you with a comprehensive guide to Azure Local, Microsoft’s latest innovation that’s revolutionizing enterprises’ approach to hybrid cloud infrastructure. Azure Local represents a game-changing approach to hybrid cloud computing. Azure Local What is Azure Local Azure Local, formerly known as Azure Stack HCI, is Microsoft’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution that brings Azure services and … Read more >>
Azure Local pricing deserves attention before you order a single node. Azure Local is Microsoft’s hybrid platform that runs virtual machines, containers, and Azure-connected services on hardware you own. In this guide, you will learn how Azure Local billing works, how to estimate your monthly cost, how to cut it with licensing benefits, and how … Read more >>
A software company I worked with had a test environment that behaved perfectly and a production environment that kept failing in strange ways. The cause took two days to find. Someone had clicked through the Azure portal to build production six months earlier and had skipped a network setting that test had. Nobody had written … Read more >>
A manufacturing company I worked with ran its inventory app on a single server in a back closet. When the disk failed on a Friday afternoon, the warehouse stopped shipping for six hours. Nobody had a tested backup, and the only person who knew the setup was on vacation. Leadership asked a simple question the … Read more >>
A team I supported deployed a new function app with Terraform and checked the logs the next morning. Every few minutes a warning appeared: “The Dashboard setting is no longer supported.” Nobody on the team had added a dashboard. When I opened the app settings, I found a setting named AzureWebJobsDashboard holding a full storage … Read more >>
A support team I worked with received about 5,000 customer emails a day and read every one by hand. A developer built a quick script to score the tone of each message, and it worked well. Then someone committed the script to a shared repository with the service key pasted in plain text. The key … Read more >>