Enterprises typically have three options: Set up a secondary data center, go with an external DR service provider, or leverage the public cloud for recovery.
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably - Source
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.
The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Native Compute
In today's computing ecosystem, I would very much be considered a cloud-native engineer. My first job in the industry saw me deploying cloud hosted platforms on Rackspace and AWS infrastructure, and I have been specializing in AWS ever since. To me, highly available cloud deployments are the basics, the norm,
How often have you heard "Code to an interface"? I'm sure, at least a few times, and I know it can be hard to understand at first. I've been there, so let's see what it means.
I use 9 messaging services to varying degrees: Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, SMS, Google Voice, and Twitter. Not counting various narrower inboxy things for vertic…