The Azure Dictionary of Pain

A straightforward guide to thorny cloud terms

This idea of helping a team reach a “baseline cloud fluency” is a phrase we hear a lot at A Cloud Guru. You can have two engineers that excel at one kind of cloud operation, but if the rest of the team can’t speak their language, nothing gets done. Things slow down—or stop—when people can’t communicate.

In this guide, we’ll cover some core concepts (like load balancing and availability zones) as well as some of the most common—though clearly challenging!—Azure tools you’ll find in a modern cloud stack.