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Back in May we did a soft-launch of The RanchCast. We debuted it as a Twitch stream and produced a couple of episodes that you can now find on The RanchCast YouTube channel. After those episodes aired, I went through the feedback from the community and other streamers. Now we’re ready to re-launch.

This blog post is for anyone needing a jumpstart into the world of Kusto. Perhaps you’ve heard about Kusto and are just curious. Maybe you’re just starting to use Azure Monitor for your application monitoring. You might even be getting skilled up in anticipation of the new Squared Up for Azure release that will have KQL at its heart. Whatever your reason, set aside the next 10 minutes and we'll get you up to speed with KQL. Ready? KQL stands for Kusto Query Language.

Oracle’s VirtualBox software is a key tool in software and website development, but can be complicated to configure. Vagrant simplifies the process and enables developers to repeatably build and scrap near-identical Virtual Machines (VM). This post will create a Ubuntu 18.04 Virtual Machine with a local directory mounted on it to make it easier to code on.

When I was a little girl, I played “business” at my grandmother’s house. She gave a box of blank payroll checks from a defunct business and heels and fancy clip-on earrings that she wore to work. I stuffed a bunch of blank checks into a purse and strutted down the hall to the back bedroom (y’know, the official boss’s office), where I’d wave my hands around telling everyone to get to work.

Intent-based Capacity Planning is Google's approach to declare reliability intent for a service and then solve for the most efficient resource allocation plan dynamically. Learn how you can start using this approach to effectively manage the reliability of your services running on your Kubernetes cluster.