One of the very cool things that I find in technology is that I learn new things constantly, usually from other people. In this case, I heard about a new site from my employer, Red Gate, that is designed to talk about the challenges and solutions of working in a cloud computing environment. It's called A Cloudy Place, and it's slowly getting moving as we develop new tools to work with cloud services.

I was reading an interview with our main administrator, Simon, who also manages the SQLServerCentral servers, about the recent challenges of managing infrastructure for the DBA in Space contest. We had no idea how big the contest would be, and we knew that there might be a need to scale up rapidly to handle thousands of users accessing the site in a short period of time as new web-isodes of Brad's adventures were released.

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