Azure Compute

August 17, 2024

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Pete Apple

Microsoft uses a scream test to silence its unused servers

Do you have unused servers on your hand? Don’t be alarmed if I scream about it—it’ll be for a good reason (and not just because it’s almost Halloween)! Check out Pete Apple’s expedition to the cloud series The learnings, pitfalls,…
March 18, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Transforming modern engineering at Microsoft

Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is implementing a modern engineering vision that creates a culture, tools, and practices focused on developing high-quality, secure, and feature-rich services to enable digital transformation across the company. Our Modern Engineering initiative has…
October 27, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Boosting Microsoft’s migration to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] When Microsoft…
January 27, 2021

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Cody Bay

Streamlining Microsoft’s global customer call center system with Microsoft Azure

Overhauling the call management system Microsoft used to make 70 million calls per year has been a massive undertaking. The highly complex system was 20 years old and difficult to move on from when, five years ago, the company decided…
January 4, 2021

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Cody Bay

Microsoft Azure sellers gain a data edge with the Microsoft Power Platform

Data is great to have, but it’s only as good as our ability to digest it. Alex Thiede, digital transformation lead for Microsoft in Western Europe and a former Microsoft Azure field seller based in Vienna, set out to talk…
February 27, 2020

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Lukas Velush

How ‘born in the cloud’ thinking is fueling Microsoft’s transformation

Microsoft wasn’t born in the cloud, but soon you won’t be able to tell. Now that it has finished “lifting and shifting” its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure, the company is rethinking everything. “We’re rearchitecting all of our applications…
January 7, 2020

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Rob Boone

How retooling invoice processing is fueling transformation inside Microsoft

Until recently, processing incoming invoices at Microsoft was a patchwork, largely manual process, owing to the 20-year-old architecture and business processes on which the invoicing system was built. The existing Microsoft Invoice platform allowed only manual invoice submission. External suppliers…
October 16, 2019

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Lukas Velush

How Microsoft used SQL Azure and Azure Service Fabric to rebuild a key internal app

When Raja Narayan took over supporting the Payee Management Application that Microsoft Finance uses to onboard new suppliers and partners, the experience was broken. “Our application’s infrastructure was on-premises,” Narayan says. “It was a big, old-school architecture monolith and, although…

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