Launching MSN on Azure: A Story of the 76 Point Checklist
summary
MSN moves 450 million monthly users and ~18 billion pageviews to Azure using a 76 checklist items approach (pre-release 13, monitoring 29, deployment 11, mitigation 23). Teams co-develop a telemetry pipeline with Elasticsearch and Kibana, standardize correlation IDs, and automate deployments and alerts, but half the teams initially point logs and alerts at test systems. The launch requires six full data‑center failovers to tune thresholds and processes before automated, reliable cutover of ~90% traffic.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00A Story of the 76 Point Checklist
- 1:53The Story of MSN
- 5:35Scaling
- 7:06Dependencies
- 10:47Checklists
- 12:51Prerelease
- 18:24Checklist Mode
- 20:18One Takeaway
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