As you can tell from the title of the blog, my name is Reid Gustin. I'm a software developer at Microsoft, working on the System Definition Model (SDM). SDM is part of the Dynamic Systems Initiative , working on making IT systems self-managing, and reducing...

It seems like everyone else out there has a blog, but I've been resisting. Partially because I feel like many blogs are just a place for the author to dump their diary, and I didn't want my blog to be that. So, when a coworker left Microsoft a little...