Foreword
My journey from box software engineer to cloud service engineer began over four years ago when I moved into the SQL cloud team at Microsoft. I would like to say it was my brilliant foresight that led me to make the jump, but the truth is it was a fortuitous accident resulting from a group reorganization. I couldn’t be more thankful for the opportunity, as working on Windows SQL Azure has been the most interesting and exciting project of my career. The journey to build a relational database as a service was not a straightforward one. We tried several different incarnations and had to back out from a couple of dead ends before we landed on the service you see today.
We also went through several iterations on the value proposition. What ...
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