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Eric PassmoreMigrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud10.1007/978-1-4842-1873-0_1

1. The Story of MSN

Eric Passmore
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Bellevue, WA, USA
 
This book provides a set of checklists to successfully build very large cloud services. The checklists are battle tested. They were used to launch services supporting hundreds of millions of users. The checklists work because they provide the explicit and implicit requirements for building out resilient services in the public cloud. Any team can pick up the checklist today and use it on their projects.
This book is divided into two parts. The first five chapters tell the story of building MSN , Microsoft’s consumer-facing portal, from the ground up on Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. It is ...

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