Window on Technology

Christian Heide Damm and Esteban Ardaya Heckl - Business Central Online scalability and reliability

November 17, 2023 Tobias Fenster Season 1 Episode 19
Window on Technology
Christian Heide Damm and Esteban Ardaya Heckl - Business Central Online scalability and reliability
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A lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban Ardaya Heckl, Principal Software Engineer, both working on the Business Central team, join the show to give us a look under the hood. We talk scalability and how the service reacts to increasing load, and also what happens if an issue appears and how it is mitigated.

Introduction
How BC Online started and improved
How does the BC team look at scalability
What are customers and partners asking around scalability
Why is 100 % availability more or less impossible
When something happens, how does the BC team recognize it and react
How are problems analyzed and acted upon for the future
How does interaction with other Microsoft teams work
Outro: Cooking, cleaning, time with the family - and no social media