How I built cloudskew.com on Azure
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Covers the architecture and implementation choices for cloudskew.com, an online cloud-architecture diagram editor, focusing on why the team used Azure PaaS and serverless rather than IaaS. Describes concrete operational patterns (horizontal auto-scaling, queue-based load leveling, debouncing server calls, centralized configuration) plus CI/CD distinctions (CI vs deployment vs release) and planned architectural changes to support increased scale.
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