[sdoering]

> First, when you see public officials doing a blog post on "Microsoft.com" website instead of on a public website, you know that something fishy is going on...

The article states it was written by Claire Giordano from San Francisco. Not sure where you got the UK Government official from.

To me it read like a b2b marketing piece and showcase. Kind of: We can power this, so we can power your BI dashboard as well.

Taking this into account it was a nice write up and from a data analyst's and consultant's pov interesting to read.

[Rastonbury]

Coming from consulting, this is exactly what it is - from a pure engineering standpoint it may be lacking but if you've read any other 'case study' targeted as business people this goes really deep. Normally it's SEO fodder crammed with jargon and buzzwords

[arsome]

It definitely had a bit of a marketing tone, but it was focused on what's ultimately an open source product you can run pretty much anywhere, from a different cloud provider to your own bare metal, they just happened to use it on Azure.

[greatgib]

Indeed I did not check the bio of the article writer, but when you read:

<<As a result, the GOV.UK Coronavirus dashboard became one of the most visited public service websites in the United Kingdom.>>

You don't expect the gov UK dashboard to be done us consultants...