Feb 22, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Designing a modern service architecture for the cloud

The digital transformation that many enterprises are undertaking has its benefits and its challenges: while it brings new opportunities that add value to customers and help drive business, it also places demands on legacy infrastructure, making companies struggle to keep pace with the digital world’s ever-increasing speed of business. Consider an enterprise’s line-of-business (LOB) systems,...

Feb 21, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Rotating DevOps role improves engineering service quality

As many high-performing agile software engineering teams embrace a DevOps culture, they’re adding the role of Directly Responsible Individual (DRI). The role is also known by various other names, such as Google’s “Sheriff” or Facebook’s slightly different “Designated Response Individual.” Rotating within an agile team, the DRI is responsible for service availability, service health, and...

Feb 10, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Five key learnings from Microsoft’s Windows 11 upgrade

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d4z5N5XCsA, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch as Biswa Jaysingh, a principal group program manager on the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team, shares five key learnings from releasing Windows 11 across Microsoft. Jaysingh shares how...

Feb 8, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Digital transformation spotlight: Learning from deploying Microsoft Viva, Data and AI across Microsoft

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEI3kFWPvSQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft’s internal IT leaders share their learnings from deploying Microsoft Viva and Data and AI across Microsoft. Welcome to the first episode of “Spotlight on Digital Transformation”, a new...