I was recently engaged in a troubleshooting session pertaining to Azure Network Load Balancers (NLBs).

The assistance was sought by cloud engineers seeking deeper insights into the operational characteristics of NLBs. The findings are outlined below.

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Cloudy zones

On April 25th 2023 Google Cloud has an incident involving a datacenter. The incident impacted multiple zones.


If this sounds strange, it is because not all cloud zones are created equal.

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It has been more than 20 years since my last Microsoft certification exam. Windows NT4 was very common, Windows 2000 was cutting edge, and my first job was to migrate some SMEs in my region from the former to the latter.

My goal at the time was to get the famous MCSE , but I never had the chance to finish the certificaton track, stopping after a couple of exams.

Then I fell in love with networking.

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We don’t install all our servers in the same DC. But what about clouds? Would you trust one Cloud Server Provider for all your applications?

This is the premise of Multicloud.

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