Rightsize to maximize your cloud investment with Microsoft Azure

By Dustin Ward

If you are running on-premises servers, chances are that you utilize a fraction of your overall server cores most of the time but are forced to over-provision to handle peak loads. Moving those workloads to the cloud can greatly reduce cost by “rightsizing” server capacity as needed. Rightsizing is one of the key levers you…

7 reasons to attend Azure Open Source Day

By Dustin Ward

To show you the latest capabilities of using Linux and Azure—and share some exciting announcements—we will be hosting Azure Open Source Day on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. Push your apps and data to the next level by using Azure, open source, and Linux together. Join this free…

Elastic and Microsoft Azure: Unified Observability for Spring Boot applications

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot applications, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. You also get a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other…

What does “open” really mean to you?

By Dustin Ward

In the world we live in today, almost every announcement has the word “open” in it. Unfortunately, it feels like there are as many definitions of what “open” means as there are announcements mentioning it. Sometimes it means “we have documented our closed-source SDK from our 100 percent proprietary product”, but nothing more. Allow me…

Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge

By Dustin Ward

Site performance is crucial when creating applications on the modern web. It has a direct impact on user experience, search engine rankings, and user conversion rates. With Azure Static Web Apps, we’re committed to building a platform that helps you deliver the best results for your users at a global scale. It provides streamlined full-stack…