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Read MoreWhen we deploy applications in Azure, one of the first things we think about is availability. Nobody wants an application to go down because a physical server fails or Azure…
Read MoreIntroduction If you’ve worked in Azure for any length of time, you’ve probably experienced that moment of panic after clicking Delete on the wrong resource—or at least worried that it…
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