October 9th - Azure Front Door takes a nap. Traffic reroutes, dashboards go red, and half the internet suddenly learns what "global edge dependency" really means.

October 20th - an AWS region (US-EAST-1) goes down. Not the apocalypse, just enough to make dashboards bleed red, engineers reach for coffee, and LinkedIn light up with "That's why we use multi-cloud" posts.

October 29th - Azure Front Door stumbles again. Same story, different day. And somewhere in between, a few other providers quietly joined the chaos with their own "we're experiencing elevated error rates" moments.

It's been one of those months when you realize: even the clouds catch colds. The uptime gods don't play favorites - not AWS, not Azure, not anyone.

And that's when Barry O'Reilly's Residuality Theory came to mind again - the idea that what really matters isn't the outage itself, but what's left behind.
The tangled complexity.
The assumptions that didn't hold.
The edge cases you dismissed with a confident, "That'll never happen."

Spoiler: it just did and will again.

In the cloud world, it’s all about speed, repeatability, and stability. That’s where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) comes in. Many imagine YAML files or PowerShell scripts, but the truth is: Anyone can start with IaC today.

In this post, you’ll learn:

• What IaC is and why it matters
• How to get started in Azure – even without deep experience

When it comes to Microsoft certifications, it’s not just about studying.
It’s about preparing the right way, using the right tools, and staying calm during the exam.
Over time, I’ve developed my own routine — and I’ll share exactly how I do it.