After the screw up in 2016... I think, (certificate rotation failed due to trying to set an expiration date of 2/29/2017), you'd better believe that there was a lot of focus on that issue. Had a full team dedicated to ensuring everything went smoothly (now the team does code scanning to find similar ticking time bombs).

Big companies generally don't go full hog to switch from one cloud to another unless they have a political reason for doing so. Instead what is probably happening is making redundant copies of their data across multiple clouds (and within the individual clouds as well). Why make a single cloud provider a point of failure when you can have backups across multiple clouds.

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Artemus Harper
Azure Engineer

(This opinion is my personal opinion and not reflective of Azure or Microsoft)

How would this be different if they did not use a cloud instance? If anything I would expect financial institutions to be more encouraged to use a cloud service as many of the big ones have done extensive compliance check requirements, including extensive vetting of any employee that has administrative operations on user data.

Cloud service companies maintain the following priorities with respect to data access:
1. Integrity (we won't lose your data)
2. Security (your data is as safe as you make it)
3. Availability (You can get your data when you want it)
4. Performance (You can access your data quickly)

The big 3 cloud companies: Amazon, Microsoft, Google I don't think have had any failure on points #1 and #2, to the point where it is taken for granted and they compete on points #3 and #4.

-- Artemus Harper, Azure engineer

I find this entry interesting, as the more well known game Zuma basically took this idea and made a PC version with the core game mechanics, and many reviews, not knowing Puzz loop called it original.

Note: It looks like only Puzz loop 2 is uploaded.

I assume so, given that he has hit his 15th year while I was working there.

I'm now working at Microsoft (Azure). 3 years and going, hopefully I'll survive.

My manager had too many people under him after he fired my previous manager and all of us now reported directly to him. He was looking for someone to take on the now vacant spot, and was going to fire people until it happened, or he got the number of people under him to a reasonable level.

I used to work at Amazon...

Here is my performance review that basically said "Last chance before you are fired"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fopen%3F...

Note: It is long

Java is a technology, while GIthub is a platform. If you don't like the acquisition, you will find moving to an alternative is much less painful than migrating Java to another language.

That is not to say all platforms are eclipsed by technologies. I think if company X obtained Wikipedia, it could be more disruptive than acquiring Ruby.

P.S. This is my personal opinion, unrelated to job in Azure.

I completely disagree with you, since:
1. We should not practice eye for an eye.
2. He did not take away our lifespan, he took away our ability to be productive or "have fun". I think jail does that too.
3. We have partly ourselves to blame for making this easy to accomplish.

The summary calls out that they mean competitive gamers. I'd imagine that Hearth Stone and League of Legends are primary candidates for this. The first being more strategy focused, while the later has a team element to it.

This is not a "pure" cryptocurrency. Each unit is backed by a barrel of oil. It can only be created by Venezuela. The crypto part simply is a way of transferring it.

In short, you can't mine it and you pretty much have to obtain it from Venezuela government directly or indirectly.

It's your choice, you can trust a big/medium/small corp, or you can trust someone who you spent a few hours interviewing. Ultimately, to live in society, you need to trust people.

Let's see here.

Benefits: Your data is managed by experts whose main focus is keeping everyone's data secure, available and reliable. Multiple servers ensure redundancy and if needed globally available to allow for minimal latency.

"you have no control over", "is [a file] actually properly deleted"
Is this any different than trusting your local IT professional? What would be the fallout it if your AWS, Azure, Google, ect... was found to not treat a customers data in a secure and private way (please don't use a counter example from a middle tier service like iCloud, one drive, or google drive)?

"If the cloud is attacked, how long will it take for the parent company to admit they were hacked?"
A lot sooner, now that the EU is putting GDPR into place.

-- A personal opinion from your friendly Azure engineer

Not really processor time. MacOS back then didn't have a thread interrupts. Once your application's thread is running it keeps going until it gives back control to the OS or you hit the debug button.

I think the reason I left EQ was that I was failing collage, so I moved back home with my folks who didn't have internet (and took classes at an easier school). While I do have a masters now with a good job I was young then; to quote George W Bush, "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible".