Review: Microsoft & Cray accelerate supercomputing in the cloud

This is fantastic news! The capability to super-compute in the cloud is another big milestone towards the vision laid out by Microsoft. Who better to partner on such a mission than Cray?

Read Article
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/supercomputing-in-the-cloud-announcing-three-new-cray-in-azure-offers/?cdn=disable

Don't know why or can't connect the dots? Then check out this article.
https://www.netapp.com/us/info/what-is-high-performance-computing.aspx

Or, watch the video by Cray:

References

1. https://www.cray.com/solutions/supercomputing-as-a-service/cray-in-azure
2. https://qz.com/1113112/satya-nadella-just-hit-one-of-microsofts-most-ambitious-goals-a-year-early/

Review: Traditional Developer vs Cloud Developer

Another interesting article.
https://blog.bluesoftglobal.com/cloud-developer/

I need to do more research on the argument made in this article about the need to become a Cloud Developer. There will just be too much technology to learn if we keep thinking that a techie needs to learn stack development, deployment, tech support, translation of business domain knowledge into technical feasibility, and more.

Teams will continue to grow and not with an all-in-one talented techie. Developers will continue to need to specialize, in my opinion. But, if the cloud handles all the deployment and support issues, then maybe a developer can just focus on - developing?