Microsoft Discovers Diagrams Don't Prevent Outages

In a triumph of stating the bleeding obvious, Microsoft Azure has published a blog post reminding enterprise architects that cloud resilience is an ongoing chore rather than a box you tick on a project plan.

• Static architecture diagrams provide false comfort while actual systems quietly rot in production.
• Treating uptime as a one-off project guarantees your next outage will be spectacular.
• Microsoft would prefer you continuously manage your infrastructure rather than just drawing it.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Paying consultants to draw boxes that fail in production is a proud IT tradition we refuse to abandon.

Read the original: Your architecture diagram is not your resilience