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As a follow-up on other related threads I had my first interaction where a major European company stated that they want to go down a route where they can switch cloud provider easily if required. After the last few…

Seems something has changed to my view of how ask hn works. Previously it filled at least one page, now it seems to be limited to around 14 entries. Is this intentional? Maybe there is a time range and there hasn't been…

Was reading lobste.rs from the UK and noticed this link on region locking out the UK users. After reading the thread it seems to be incredibly complex, and this is one of the main issues. Does anyone have a summary of…

Now that windows is more tightly integrating with linux and supporting wsl etc and applications are increasingly xplatform e.g. vs code in electron on linux, apple etc where do we see this ending. Is there much change…

There appeared to be a worldwide outage on xbox live signin yesterday but I didn't see anything about it on here. Any idea what the cause was? It didn't appear to affect other MS services or Azure etc. It was one of the…

After spending the last couple of years working with Azure it sounds like I'll be going back to working with AWS. Azure has some great learning features on Microsoft Learn, where you can basically go through a course…

I feel like I've learnt about networking / TCPIP / DNS multiple times over the last 30 years and it never seems to stick. After a long support call with a cloud vendor today I feel like I need to relearn from first…

Long term programmer/architect in business IT. Work is quiet so I was thinking of starting a new technical book. I think the only one I managed to read fully this year was Designing Data Intensive Systems, which seemed…