We can be certain of one thing in the IT world: when things go wrong, storage and networking are inevitably to blame. I say this as someone who wore the hat of a SAN admin in one of my past lives! I was best friends with the networking team. I’m mostly joking (about being best friends), but it doesn’t matter how well an application is designed and written: the foundational infrastructure pieces must be in place to support it. Bear with me in the next couple of chapters as I explore Azure Storage and Azure Networking. You may tempted to brush over these services to get to the cool stuff in the later chapters, but there’s a lot of value in spending some time exploring and learning these core services. It won’t make your food taste any better, but it may help your customers as they order their yummy pizzas for delivery!