DevOps
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DevOps is sending engineering practices up in smoke
When it comes to modernizing how software engineers write their code, sometimes you just have to light things on fire. Just ask James Gagnon. He’ll tell you that good engineering teams at Microsoft and in Microsoft Digital are driving towards…
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…
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How we’re deploying our VWAN infrastructure using infrastructure as code and CI/CD
Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. We’re building a more agile, resilient, and stable virtual wide-area network (VWAN) to create a better experience for our employees…
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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.”…
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Microsoft internal SAP workload gets a telemetry boost with Azure
For the first time, Microsoft has end-to-end visibility into the millions of business processes that it runs through SAP every day. Microsoft is using a new suite of Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to gain insight into how to better manage…