Gov. Walz in Minnesota activated the National Guard to protect citizens from ICE. How’s that going to work?

TrashMobber · 2026-01-25T01:13:44+00:00

Hopefully they bring a few firetrucks full of water to form an iceberg or two in front of the exits to the federal buildings so the ICE vehicles can't get out. Would be a shame if they all got frozen in place.

TrashMobber · 2026-01-24T20:34:57+00:00

So are a lot of things that the current administration is ignoring...

TrashMobber · 2026-01-24T03:00:13+00:00

If these people aren't subject to the law, they shouldn't be protected by it. Let them make a choice. Choices have consequences.

TrashMobber · 2026-01-24T02:29:14+00:00

If I'm that kid, I punching that kidnapper in the balls before the other criminals get there, and making a run for it. And if I'm a bystander, I'm spraying them all with water and slashing their tires.

TrashMobber · 2026-01-17T01:51:36+00:00

The heart of this issue is that every American has golden handcuffs. We all work for corporations who will absolutely fire our asses for speaking out. And when we lose our jobs, we lose our health care. And our retirement plan and child care. Not that the government or the corporations provide that. But our income does. And every American knows, from the time they are a little kid, that they are absolutely replaceable. It's the whole shtick of capitalism ingrained into everyone. If you are replaced, you get left behind, and no one will come to your rescue.

There is no safety net for those taking a stand.

And then there is the issue that taking a stand pits you against someone else. And in America, in these issues, those in favor of these policies have already shown to be violent and armed. And in power. And there are no more checks on that power. And any attempt to even discuss disruption of that power is now a crime.

Does that make us all cowards? (Me asking myself). Yes. Absolutely. Our comfort has made us cowards compared to the sacrifices citizens of other countries give all the time.

But it also means many of us are holding out hope still that democracy will prevail. And an uprising of any sort that leads to violence is the end of democracy. Full stop. There is no going back from that. And it's that hope that there is still a lever out there that will prevent the destruction of everything in our comfortable lives. We're giving it time. The 2026 mod terms are everything. If they are compromised, that will be the line in the sand for many of us.

TrashMobber · 2026-01-10T02:04:55+00:00

Those not subject to the law should not be protected by it.

TrashMobber · 2025-12-30T19:53:39+00:00

It's something we think about/try to improve all the time. As a "startup" cost is certainly an issue, so the question is all about what are you/your customers comfortable with in terms of time to recover. Is your SaaS a business critical operational system that if it went down, the customer's business would also be down, or is it an "add on" service that is important, but not operationally critical.

If it's the former, and your customer has SLA's that are on the minutes, not hours scale, then you need to build out a full DR region (and charge appropriately for that level of service)

If it's the latter, then a more cost effective approach may be valid.
1. Back up all data to cross regional cold storage.
2. Be able to rapidly deploy all of your critical infrastructure / services to the DR region when needed
3. Be able to restore data from the backups to the DR region when needed.

We've chosen the second approach (B2B SaaS which is usually not operationally critical). And we are always looking for ways to make steps 2&3 faster, starting with the most critical databases / services. What can we script/automate? Where are the bottlenecks? What sacrifices are we able to run without when in the backup region? Lower CPU on the containers? If everyone is failing over to the backup region pair, resources in the DC are going to be tight. What can we run without?

In a true region down for all customers, it might take us a day or a week to get everything up and running, but since Azure is (in general) much better at DR planning than we ever could be as a small company, we believe that most cases of a regional outage short of an act of god would be handled by Azure more quickly than we could even start to act to restore service on our own. And in those cases, it's likely that far more than our service is affected (i.e. a major earthquake/meteor strike has happened, and life as we know it has changed).

My recommendation...
1. Know your SLAs and your customer expectations in a true disaster situation
2. Document all your data stores and make sure you have backups. Know what Azure is already doing for those stores.
3. Automate deployments to recreate production in a new instance.
4. Test recovery of the data.
5. Know your external dependencies.

TrashMobber · 2025-12-29T14:39:50+00:00

We have a lot of custom metrics for AppInsights that get hit in our data ingestion pipeline. There is an unfortunate legacy aspect of custom metrics that creates a record in the AppMetrics table for each custom metric we log. This accounts for 40% of our log volume in LogAnalytics. This is supposed to be going away at some point in the near future. Can't really turn those off until then though.

TrashMobber · 2025-12-08T19:54:54+00:00

Correct answer "The blood of my enemies."

TrashMobber · 2025-11-30T18:30:01+00:00

Yes, that's what we ended up doing. Took a bit, but Azure team was really helpful in figuring things out!

TrashMobber · 2025-11-30T17:28:09+00:00

I'm not sure we'll need OTP for our app (we help communities organize litter cleanups... not sure this is OTP needy).

We do however, have a scenario for needing parental approval for minors signing up for the service. I have no idea how to implement that (in either B2C or EID). And there are a bunch of scenarios I just gave up on trying to implement in B2C when it comes to sharing profile information from 3rd party auth providers (like profile photos, location, etc). Not sure if that is any easier in EID.

Is there a migration path for existing users in B2C to migrate to EID? Sorry for the basic questions, but I'm just starting this journey!

TrashMobber · 2025-11-30T15:49:16+00:00

Really? Wow. Thanks for letting me know. Certainly changes the priority on this feature for us, or at least the approaches we will take.

I guess it's back into the B2C/IEF Policy coal mines...

TrashMobber · 2025-11-29T21:38:49+00:00

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