There's a specific flavor of fatigue that comes from working with Google's stack. It isn't the fatigue of a flaky test suite or a standup that ran long. It's the fatigue of reopening a bookmarked doc and discovering the product it describes now answers to a completely different name.

Here's …

If you're new to Azure, it feels a little counterintuitive at first. You spin up a VM in Azure, and your instinct is to log into that VM and start running Azure commands from inside it — after all, that's where your "Azure stuff" lives, right? But then someone tells you …

If your Azure Spot VM keeps dropping, it almost always comes down to how you configured its eviction type and policy when you created it. Spot VMs give you up to 90% off pay-as-you-go pricing by using Azure's unused capacity, but that discount comes with a real chance of interruption …

Ever bought a plane ticket on standby? You pay way less, but there's a catch — if the flight fills up, you might not get on. Now imagine that same idea, but for the computers that power apps, websites, and data crunching in the cloud.

That's basically what a Spot VM …