đ One of our regular grocery stories in the neighborhood is now a pile of rubble. Besides being a fairly ugly East German relic, it was what the city planners call a âflat man,â a single story single use building that doesnât efficiently use urban space. In a couple of years, itâll be a 6-story residential building with a new grocery store at the bottom.
đ¶ Two of the German startups in the Microsoft for Startups program just had some major fundraises: LeanIX raised a $80 million Series D and Userlane raised a âŹ10 million Series B. Itâs really cool to see companies that weâve helped continue to grow, despite all the uncertainty in the world.
đ· As part of the massive acceleration to online learning, the Nikon School UK is closing down in London. Going online, theyâre able to expand their reach worldwide. Sure, itâs nice to learn in person, but I really love that this trend is opening up access overall.
â I really like the idea of Terraform, but each time I look deeply into it for managing Azure resources, I get tripped up over lags in the feature set. For example, the Terraform azure_cdn_endpoint configuration directive doesnât support custom domains yet even though custom domains have been supported by the Microsoft Azure CDN for a while. That was the end of todayâs attempt, at least.