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Episode 115 | Azure Container Service (ACS) with Microsoft's Ross Gardler

Developer Tools — Interview with Microsoft's Ross Gardler about ACS
Developer Toolsest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 813 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
microsoftcloudshow.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Episode 115 | Azure Container Service (ACS) with Microsoft's Ross Gardler's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Tech Inclusion Podcast - Marco Rogers, Engineering Manager at Clover Healthentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
SaaStr 097: Douglas Hanna, VP of Developer Platform @ Zendeskentertainmenttag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
EP.27 e-Wise CEO David Hamilton: How Banks Can Leverage PSD2 to Catalyse Innovation⎜#MakerZoneentertainmenttag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
SaaStr 052: Jon Herstein, SVP Customer Success @ Boxentertainmenttag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
AWS Hack for Network Performance and Data Transfer Costsdev-toolssimilar75%5.80.0■ inactive
Software Lead Weeklycommunicationtag-overlap75%40.00.0● live
PatentShield by Google & Intertrustsecuritytag-overlap75%44.30.0● live
Permeodev-toolssimilar75%0.00.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 12:02Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare176alive
2026-08-18 13:11Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare564alive
2026-08-11 00:08Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare996alive
2026-08-08 05:58Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare335alive
2026-08-05 18:20Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare1041alive
2026-07-30 17:34Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare432alive
2026-07-18 15:29Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare1396alive
2026-07-16 09:38Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare691alive
2026-07-10 10:27Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare1471alive
2026-07-04 09:17Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare1624alive
2026-06-23 13:37Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare334alive
2026-06-21 21:54Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare1009alive
2026-06-20 20:01Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare901alive
2026-06-19 15:16Z200microsoftcloudshow.comcloudflare413alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Episode 115 | Azure Container Service (ACS) with Microsoft's Ross Gardler · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/episode-115-azure-container-service-acs-with-microsoft-s-ross-gardler · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.