Category: Azure Infrastructure & Performance

Making the data platform fast and sized right on Azure: storage, VM sizing, caching, throughput and latency, Managed Instance and Azure SQL tiers, benchmarking.

Azure Storage – Day of Data Baton Rouge – 18 Jul 2026

admin July 10, 2026 0 Comments
You did everything right. You moved SQL Server to Azure, you paid for premium storage, you sized the VM generously. And it's still... slow. Your users are grumbling, your dashboards look fine on paper, and you're starting to wonder if the cloud was oversold. Here's the uncomfortable truth I've been sharing on stages this year: in Azure, you're paying for a service, and Microsoft is only going to...

The Azure “secret”

Michael Wall July 12, 2021 0 Comments
I'm a big believer in doing research and practicing processes and procedures until they don't break anymore. In my job, breaking things means downtimes and unhappy customers. Because of this, I like to put a lot of time in documentation, trials, practice, etc to make sure everything works the way it should be. I might even say I'm a little bit obsessive. Human beings change, systems rarely do....