Azure Under The Hood – 01 – A New Series
How stuff works
My whole life I want to know �how stuff works�. Just hitting a button and use a vacuum cleaner, dish washer, laptop, RC car, mobile or whatever, won�t �fly� with me for a long time. Soon I�ll be prying, investigating and �researching� the WHY something works and based on what principals.
Sure, it has cost me some childhood birthday presents (a radio I once got for my birthday was dismantled within a day and beyond repair�), but I always LEARNED from it. That attitude didn�t change when PCs came into my life, or better my father�s professional life.
Of course, the first months I kept a respectful distance and only used the PC (IBM PS/2) as allowed by my father, all the while keeping a keen eye at the big white case, wondering what magic was happening right there under my nose. So you can imagine how thrilled and happy I was when the PC broke down and the technician had to be called! Somehow my father wasn�t that happy about it�
I ascertained to be there when the technician came around to fix it. So when he opened the PC case I was just a few inches away, firing of questions, pointing out all the different parts in order to learn as much as possible. The PC got repaired and I learned a lot that day. Some years later I started to assemble my own PCs�
Azure & me
This attitude/curiosity hasn�t really changed over the years. No, I won�t break anything apart anymore in order to try to learn from it. Today there is Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and the lot. Saves me a lot of hassle and money as well. Sure, it takes a lot of the investigation fun away, but keeps me out of trouble as well.
But still. It gnaws at me when I use something without having a deeper understanding of it all. Same goes with Azure. Yes, I know what a computer is, what a network does, what a datacenter is for. But Azure is WAY MORE THAN THAT!
As such I�ve done a lot of investigation. Read a lot of books, online articles, watched many video�s and so on. Simply to gain a deeper understanding of what�s happening under the hood of Azure, or better when you�re clicking around in the Azure portal.
The funny thing is that Microsoft is quite secretive about it. Even towards MVPs they don�t share a lot. And when I found some information, I had to double check it, in order to know for a full 100% that I am not violating any NDA. When in doubt, I don�t share it.
The new series
As a result I�ve collected a lot of interesting non-NDA information all about Azure under the hood, to be shared with you out there. No, it won�t make you (nor me for that matter) an �Azure-Under-The-Hood-Expert�, but at least it will give you a better understanding of how Azure works.
In the time to come I�ll share that information. But please feel free to comment and send your own findings. I�ll use that as well and name you as well of course as the source.
See you all next time!