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

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.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:11 How BC Online started and improved
• 5:02 How does the BC team look at scalability
• 9:01 What are customers and partners asking around scalability
• 14:21 Why is 100 % availability more or less impossible
• 18:38 When something happens, how does the BC team recognize it and react
• 20:40 How are problems analyzed and acted upon for the future
• 24:45 How does interaction with other Microsoft teams work
• 28:40 Outro: Cooking, cleaning, time with the family - and no social media