#cloud scaling

[rajaniesh]

Scaling Azure Container Apps for Peak Performance

In our last blog, we dove into optimizing deployments with Azure Pipelines, covering strategies for choosing the right agents and securing environment variables to ensure smooth, reliable updates. Now, let’s take things a step further. Once you’ve streamlined your deployment pipeline, the next challenge is making sure your Azure Container Apps can easily handle fluctuating demands. In this final…

[shitpostingkats]

I love how Nibelheim is casually actually buckwild insane in terms of ecology. Harsh mountain landscape where almost no plantlife grows and the air is filled with radiation poisoning and 90% of the random encounters aren't even escaped lab experiments or mutated beasts they're just. Normal wolves except they're 300% stronger than the wolves from the game's starting area and also sometimes you turn the corner and there's. A dragon. Completely normal and unremarkable predator, the fire breathing dragon. Also the locals believe if you climb high enough up the mountain you can get to the land of the dead but why the fuck would you do that so everyone just goes about their lives like a short hike away from the literal afterlife. Truly no other town could have produced the likes of Cloud Strife and Tifa Lockhart.

[mic-check-stims]

Dragon Tales board for anon

X-X X-X X-X X

[dailyfigures]

Cloud Strife ; Final Fantasy ☆ Square Enix

[dinodanicus]

My female carnotaurus character Calliope heading down to the beach for a swim. My old computer finally gave up the ghost after 10 years of okay service so this is the first painting of my new computer.

[tharatorns]

Inspector. Mr. Anuwat seems to have already fled.

JJay Patiphan as WIN 4MINUTES | EP. 6

[cloud-ya]

Is there perchance a chance we might see the gals (Ume and Leere) hanging out in one of ur art? Being it in cosmic form or humanoid form

now I don't know how much of a coincidence this ask is as I made rare Leere art for @thefoxfromthevoid recently and posted it on my server lol

given I rarely agree on drawing for free nowadays even for friends the chances are probably slim, unless I obsess about the concept

that being said, have the aforementioned doodle of the two with cartoon hedgehogs that I think fit them because I infodumped about Mephiles the Dark to Void yesterday

[newtsnaturethings]

@vashmerylweek Day 2

Mythology AU:

Storm spirit (aka ‘The Typhoon’) Vash and Sea Nymph (aka Nymph of the Bright Sea) Meryl meeting in the eye of a storm

[artemlegere]

Astraea Leaving the Earth

Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)

Date: ca. 1665

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Description

According to the Roman poet Virgil, Astraea, the goddess of justice, is the last of the gods to leave the corrupted earth at the end of the Iron Age, the age of complete decay of culture and morals. She leaves her attributes, the fasces (bundle of rods) and scales, to the just and peaceful peasants. This characteristically Baroque mixture of literature and symbolism expressed both pessimism and hope for renewal. Since ancient times, the simplicity of peasant life has been seen as a herald of this hope for happy, golden times.

[flame-shadow]

pen scribbles from today and yesterday. i plan to do more going forward

[skeletalheartattack]

did more work on Boe's house, finally building out the attic and basement, which completes the full structuring of the house itself.

more in-depth screenshots below

top to bottom visualization of each floor, from the roof down to the basement. a lot of the furniture is mostly placeholder brushes for the time being, at least if i ever look into having proper models to replace them. ive also restructured some doors and walls to be closer to how i've imagined his house to look, rather than leaving the layout as is, based off of existing victorian house plans. also said house plans didn't include a bathroom, so i also added one of those. not that Boe would need to use the toylot in any such way. skeleton and all. you know.

some closer looks at the actual rooms themselves, also showcasing the work put into creating the attic. the attic's framing is mostly me trying to ensure it makes sense visually while also cutting down on brushes. i'm kinda proud of the work i put into the bathroom's tub and curtains, for as rudimentary as the brushwork is. most rooms and the basement are pretty barebones, as i both haven't put much time into fleshing them out, and because some rooms i honestly haven't really imagined in my head before constructing all this.

and whadtha hell some kind of fuckin doggy dog. awesome creature, though. don't know what it is. a little weird and cool.

[disturbedchatte]

Zack got a late Valentines day gift,,,

Last two panels uploaded on bluesky ! ! ! @ disturbedchatte.bsky.social ! ! !

[one-flower-one-sword]

well I know what you want from me you want someone to be your reflection, your bitter deception setting you free won't you come and dance in the dark with me? show me what you are, I am desperate to know nobody better than the perfect enemy and I know what you want from me you want the same as me my redemption, eternal ascension setting me free

for @bladesmercy's fic The Fear of Falling Stars

[gingermintpepper]

U mention in 1 of ur tags that Poseidon has vitiligo? Could u tell us more about that pls?

Okay so, I saw this ask and went "oh man this is a wonderful opportunity to ramble about some of my design decisions for the Olympians" then I also, simultaneously went "This is also a perfect opportunity to doodle Poseidon" so I spent like, way too much time doing a dinky little doodle to show both what Poseidon's vitiligo looks like + what I generally envision his design to be like when he's on Olympus!

Of course, in true Ginger fashion, it's very messy but I think it gets the point across well enough! The big reason Poseidon has vitiligo (or why I've interpreted his skin as being speckled) is because well, as a horse/hippocampus (which is his actual preferred form) he has a piebald/pinto coat and the only way really to translate that onto a human-presenting form is some form of pigmentation disorder like vitiligo or leukoderma.

Poseidon, like almost every other Olympian (save for Apollo who has the most human-like appearance of them all) has multiple animal/mythical creature elements incorporated into his design/interpretation, many of these I've chosen to allude to what their 'truest' forms are like, for example Zeus' big bull horns because he was born a horned god or Aphrodite's feathered hair and talons because she is directly descended from Ouranos. Because gods are always changing and evolving as the world changes and evolves, these features of theirs can change to better match their current 'truest' self, but most deities, especially the older ones, tend to settle after a period of time and don't experience much drastic change. For my purposes, Poseidon was born with horse like features which he inherited from his mother including his striking piebald coat and his horse's ears, but he later acquired sea serpent traits such as his tail, sharp teeth and water-like hair after acquiring the domain of the Ocean and being forced to adapt very rapidly to his new environment.

Due to geneology and generational inheritance being such a major theme in my work, I chose to let that stand for the descendents of the gods as well! Humans naturally aren't born with coats and such, but many of Poseidon's children do end up having some form of leucism from minor things like Ancaeus' double coloured hair or Bellerophon's 'peeled' hands and feet (they were a lighter colour than the rest of his body) to much more intense expressions of the trait like Theseus' albinism or Triton's very unique speckling. It's rare for his human children to get an extreme expression of this trait due to humans just kind of having less melanin to work with compared to nymphs, spirits or animals, but it does happen from time to time.

[tifa-simp]

Sometime I randomly remember that Tifa kills a fucking dragon with a kick and smile.

Anytime she loses to anyone, I'll pull that out as backup evidence that she holds back a lot when it comes to fighting human cos she knows her kick can smash someone's skull.

[sir-adamus]

in the last scene, everyone gets something to say except Tifa - the only sound she makes at all are these tearful sobs. she's devastated over losing Aerith

when Nanaki senses Aerith's presence, Tifa looks up for a second, then just... drops her head back onto her arms in the most defeated way

someone give this poor woman a hug, fucking hell