Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft is pleased to announce that Azure Availability Zones are now generally available from the Germany West Central datacenter region. Azure Availability Zones (AZs) feature in the broad portfolio of services and products that enable organizations to create resilient, highly available applications for mission-critical workloads.

Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an…

Sponsored Post: 3T, Bridgecrew, Toptal, IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedSponsored Post: 3T, Bridgecrew, Toptal, IP2Location, Ipdata, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Triplebyte, Stream, Fauna Who’s Hiring?  Looking to rapidly hire Top Software Developers? Get Started with Toptal. Toptal will match you with top-quality, pre-screened freelance software developers that meet your project requirements. All in under 48 hours. Get started right away with a no risk…

How the Bottlerocket build system works

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow the Bottlerocket build system works Bottlerocket is an open source, special-purpose operating system designed for hosting Linux containers, which was launched in 2020. As I delved into the Bottlerocket build system for a deeper understanding, I found it helpful to describe the system in detail (a form of rubber-duck debugging). This article is…