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  "title": "CloudSkew blog",
  "home_page_url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/",
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  "description": "Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes diagrams for free",
  "favicon": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/assets/cloudskew-logo.png",
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Introducing the CloudSkew Professional Plan",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/12/17/upcoming-pricing-model-changes/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/12/17/upcoming-pricing-model-changes/",
      "summary": "CloudSkew now introduces a professional plan for cloud architects. Subscribe to create unlimited architecture diagrams &amp; reusable templates.\ncloudskew professional plan\nBonu...",
      "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CloudSkew</a> now introduces a professional plan for cloud architects. Subscribe to create unlimited architecture diagrams &amp; reusable templates.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/pages/pricing/pricing-table-01.png\" alt=\"cloudskew professional plan\"></p>\n<p>Bonus: All early adopters &amp; power users have been upgraded/grandparented for free for the next 6 months!</p>\n<p>Please refer to our <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/pricing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pricing page</a>, <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/frequently-asked-questions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAQs page</a>, <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com/about/terms-of-service.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terms of service</a> and <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com/about/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">privacy policy</a> for more details.</p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/pages/pricing/pricing-table-01.png",
      "date_published": "2020-12-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "CloudSkew featured at Azure Community Conference",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/11/24/cloudskew-on-azure-community-conference/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/11/24/cloudskew-on-azure-community-conference/",
      "summary": "A big thanks to the Azure Community Conference for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which Mithun Shanbhag (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of cloudskew....",
      "content_html": "<p>A big thanks to the <a href=\"https://www.azconf.dev/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Community Conference</a> for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/isRLHQZbs08\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n",
      "date_published": "2020-11-24T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
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      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "CloudSkew crosses 20K user signups",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/09/05/milestone-20k/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/09/05/milestone-20k/",
      "summary": "cloudskew.com is acquiring users at a steady clip and just crossed 20K user signups this week.\n20K user signups",
      "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloudskew.com</a> is acquiring users at a steady clip and just crossed 20K user signups this week.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/38-milestone-20k-user-signups.png\" alt=\"20K user signups\"></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/38-milestone-20k-user-signups.png",
      "date_published": "2020-09-05T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "CloudSkew featured on the Cloud Lunch & Learn show",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/07/21/cloudskew-on-cloud-lunch-learn/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/07/21/cloudskew-on-cloud-lunch-learn/",
      "summary": "A big thanks to the Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn show for featuring CloudSkew last week. Here's the recording in which Mithun Shanbhag (CloudSkew creator) and Hugo Barona (host) talk...",
      "content_html": "<p>A big thanks to the Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn show for featuring CloudSkew last week. Here's the recording in which <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/HmsBarona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hugo Barona</a> (host) talk about the internals of <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure.</p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/aZyPlXiXsqY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n<p>Please do subscribe to Cloud Lunch &amp; Learn's <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHZeZzSlTtmfgPozIq8J2Kw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">youtube channel</a> for great Azure content!</p>\n",
      "date_published": "2020-07-21T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "CloudSkew crosses 14K user signups",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/26/milestone-14k/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/26/milestone-14k/",
      "summary": "cloudskew.com just crossed 14K user signups. It's been a good week (we made it to the HackerNews front page). Onwards &amp; upwards!\n14K user signups",
      "content_html": "<p><a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloudskew.com</a> just crossed 14K user signups. It's been a good week (we made it to the HackerNews front page). Onwards &amp; upwards!</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/35-milestone-14k-user-signups.png\" alt=\"14K user signups\"></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/35-milestone-14k-user-signups.png",
      "date_published": "2020-06-26T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "CloudSkew featured at Cloud Community Days conference",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/17/cloudskew-on-cloud-community-days/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2020/06/17/cloudskew-on-cloud-community-days/",
      "summary": "A big thanks to the Cloud Community Days conference for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which Mithun Shanbhag (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of cloud...",
      "content_html": "<p>A big thanks to the <a href=\"https://ccdays.konfhub.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cloud Community Days</a> conference for featuring CloudSkew. Here's the recording in which <a href=\"https://twitter.com/mithunshanbhag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mithun Shanbhag</a> (CloudSkew creator) talks about the internals of <a href=\"https://www.cloudskew.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloudskew.com</a> and how it was built on top of Azure (skip to the 3:49:00 mark).</p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/_dZwMidN9wY?start=13742\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n",
      "date_published": "2020-06-17T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: Availability Zones",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability sets\nAvailability Zones ...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics\">The basics</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets\">Availability sets</a></em></li>\n<li><em><strong>Availability Zones (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage\">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic\">Traffic management</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps\">App service, function apps</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/02-azure-availability-zones.jpg",
      "date_published": "2019-03-31T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: Availability Sets",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability Sets (this post)\nAvailab...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics\">The basics</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><strong>Availability Sets (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones\">Availability zones</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage\">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic\">Traffic management</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps\">App service, function apps</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/19-azure-availability-set.png",
      "date_published": "2019-03-29T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: App Service, Function Apps",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability sets\nAvailability zones\n...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics\">The basics</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets\">Availability sets</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones\">Availability zones</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage\">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic\">Traffic management</a></em></li>\n<li><em><strong>App Service, Function Apps (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/13-azure-app-service.png",
      "date_published": "2019-03-23T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: Traffic Management",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability sets\nAvailability zones\n...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics\">The basics</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets\">Availability sets</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones\">Availability zones</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage\">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><strong>Traffic management (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps\">App service, function apps</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/08-azure-traffic-manager.png",
      "date_published": "2019-03-16T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: Storage Redundancies",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability sets\nAvailability zones\n...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics\">The basics</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets\">Availability sets</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones\">Availability zones</a></em></li>\n<li><em><strong>Storage redundancies (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic\">Traffic management</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps\">App service, function apps</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/05-azure-storage-account.jpg",
      "date_published": "2019-03-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    },
    {
      "title": "High Availability in Azure: The basics",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics/",
      "id": "https://blog.cloudskew.com/2019/02/28/high-availability-azure-1-basics/",
      "summary": "Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:\n\nThe basics (this post)\nSLAs and the 9s (coming soon)\nAvailability sets\nAvailab...",
      "content_html": "<p><em>Note: This blog post is part of a series centered around the topic of high availability in Azure:</em></p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The basics (this post)</strong></em></li>\n<li><em>SLAs and the 9s (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/29/high-availability-azure-3-availability-sets\">Availability sets</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/31/high-availability-azure-4-availability-zones\">Availability zones</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/02/high-availability-azure-5-storage\">Storage redundancies</a></em></li>\n<li><em>Load balancing (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Application gateways (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/16/high-availability-azure-8-traffic\">Traffic management</a></em></li>\n<li><em><a href=\"../../../../2019/03/23/high-availability-azure-9-apps\">App service, function apps</a></em></li>\n<li><em>SQL (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>CosmosDB (coming soon)</em></li>\n<li><em>Wrapping up (coming soon)</em></li>\n</ul>\n<p><em>I'll not be addressing scaling (horizontal or vertical), backups/restores and resiliency/healing in these posts. Each of those topics deserve their own series, perhaps I'll write about them in the future if time permits.</em></p>\n",
      "image": "https://assets.cloudskew.com/assets/blog/images/04-azure-global-infra.jpg",
      "date_published": "2019-02-28T00:00:00.000Z",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Mithun Shanbhag"
        }
      ],
      "tags": []
    }
  ]
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