Huge win for Windows Container users! 40% total size reduction!
One of the most significant pain points for Windows Server Container customers is the size of the container images. These images have historically been quite large, resulting in long download times and impacting available disk space. We have made improvements to these image sizes over time, but thus...
We are hiring for Windows containers! I have a PM position on my team, a PM position working on Windows container networking and multiple engineering positions with more expected soon :).
Here is the link to the PM position on my team:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1498510/Senior-Program-Manager
Thank you Duck Creek Tech for being a great customer and partner!
"...That’s a big part of why we're moving to Windows containers on AKS. "
Technical StoryDuck Creek Technologies is leading the insurtech disruption, bringing technical innovation to insurance carriers, and its expertise includes helping Microsoft refine its cloud services. Used by top insurance companies, the Duck Creek OnDemand platform delivers a suite of low-code applications for managing all aspects of the property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance life cycle. The platform makes the most of the latest Azure technology, yet newer options are always emerging. Duck Creek saw an opportunity to reduce the operational overhead of its software as a service (SaaS) platform and to improve services for customers. Working in close partnership with Microsoft, Duck Creek adopted Windows containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), a fully managed Kubernetes environment. The move significantly reduces time to market of new features and accelerates customer onboarding. Insurance companies benefit from evergreen, always-up-to-date SaaS core systems, allowing them to push their insurtech innovations to market faster.
Great story from Microsoft 365 on how they are using #Kubernetes, #AKS and #WindowsContainers.
Technical StoryThe COVID-19 pandemic turned online communication and collaboration tools into essential services overnight. For Microsoft 365—the worldwide productivity cloud used by 200 million monthly home, business, and enterprise users—the difficult times accelerated a push to modernize application hosting infrastructure and to streamline release management processes.
Thank you
RelativityHQ for being a great customer and partnering with us on this fantastic story!
Technical StoryRelativity, a global market leader in legal e-discovery and compliance software, helps organizations find the truth buried in today’s ever-growing data sources. Its flagship product, RelativityOne, provides expert software as a service (SaaS) capable of sifting through torrents of data. With multiple awards for technological innovation and cybersecurity excellence, RelativityOne is backed by the security, reliability, and global reach of Azure. Yet, as cloud practices evolved, the company knew it could do more to modernize its highly complex Windows code base, streamline development, and improve scalability.
Great new case study published today on ForzaHorizon
and #windowscontainers on #AKS.
"It was an easy migration to get on to AKS and stay on Windows… Within a month, basically we had converted our services over to AKS and had everything running. "
Technical StoryWhen it launched, Forza Horizon 5 saw more than 10 million concurrent players—the biggest first week in Xbox Game Studios history—drive across vibrant, virtual landscapes and face off in thrilling tournaments and challenges. Forza Horizon 5 is also a stunning win behind the scenes, where Azure platform as a service (PaaS) provides a virtual crew, and a Windows-based container architecture adapts to changing demand at warp speed. The game developers rely on autoscaling Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to meet the most challenging performance demands, while fully managed Azure services free the team from time-consuming infrastructure management tasks.What the game developers learned about AKS applies to retail, financial services, streaming, and other workloads that need Grand Prix performance to manage concurrency with low latency and big spikes in demand.
This is a great talk on Windows containers. Thank you, Julian, and
Relativity!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVcNXu04eg&feature=youtu.be
