Library & Resources

Books, podcasts, templates, and tools to accelerate your IT career

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Azure High Availability

Building Resilient Cloud Infrastructure

NEW RELEASE

Azure High Availability

Building Resilient Cloud Infrastructure

A comprehensive guide to designing and implementing highly available systems on Microsoft Azure. Learn the patterns, best practices, and real-world techniques used by enterprise architects to build systems that stay up.

What You'll Learn:

Design multi-region architectures that survive datacenter failures
Implement Azure Site Recovery for seamless failover
Build zero-downtime deployment pipelines
Monitor and respond to availability incidents in real time
Calculate and meet SLA requirements for enterprise workloads
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IT Operations Playbook

The Field Guide for Modern IT Professionals

BESTSELLER

IT Operations Playbook

The Field Guide for Modern IT Professionals

Twenty years of enterprise IT experience distilled into actionable frameworks. From incident response to change management, this is the playbook that enterprise IT teams actually need.

What You'll Learn:

Build and run an effective IT operations center
Implement ITIL processes that actually work in practice
Create runbooks that your team will actually follow
Manage vendor relationships and SLAs effectively
Lead technical teams through organizational change
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Podcast Episodes

Real conversations about IT operations, career growth, and lessons learned

Feb 27, 202600:42:32

Why Enterprise AI Risk Is Not What You Think

In this episode, we examine why enterprise AI risk is often misunderstood and how governance, not prohibition, creates defensible adoption.

Free Resources

Templates, checklists, and guides to streamline your work

Azure HA Checklist

100-point checklist for high availability deployments

Checklist

Incident Response Template

Step-by-step runbook for major incident management

Template

DR Planning Guide

Comprehensive disaster recovery planning framework

Guide

IT Budget Calculator

Excel template for IT budget planning and forecasting

Template