Azure Weekly

Issue #4 - 29th November 2014

Azure news this week was dominated by a service outage affecting customers in all regions. Jason Zander of the Azure team explained that the downtime resulted from an performance update for Storage which caused an infinite loop in Blob Storage front ends, impacting other services.  The outage was unfortunately marked by its wide reach - the result of deviation from the team's standard protocol of applying production changes in incremental batches.

Among the gloom, Brian Harry's blog about his team's response to the outage stands out as a great example of fast, effective action and the types of precautions and monitoring required when you build a service on top of Azure. The comments of both posts make for interesting reading.

Special thanks got to @AliceWaddicor for editing some of the content for this issue.

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