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AKS Cost Review: Fix Requests First, Then Nodes, Then Billing
A practical order for cutting AKS spend in early 2022: right-size pod requests, tune the cluster autoscaler, then use spot, stop/start and reservations.
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A New AKS Cluster Baseline for 2022: What Changed in Late 2021
The AKS features that reached GA in 2021 and change how I'd build a new cluster in January 2022: Azure RBAC, no local accounts, auto-upgrade and Key Vault CSI.
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Dapr on Azure in 2022: Picking a Host and Securing Components
Where to run Dapr 1.5 on Azure in early 2022 (AKS, the new AKS extension, or Container Apps) and how to wire Azure components without leaking keys.
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Azure Container Apps Preview in Bicep: Revisions, Scaling and Dapr
A closer look at the Azure Container Apps preview API: how revisions, KEDA scale rules and per-app Dapr components behave, and where the preview falls short.
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Azure in 2022: Six Bets I'm Making on New Year's Day
Six predictions for Azure in 2022, from Container Apps and Bicep registries to gated Azure OpenAI access, Purview, Arc data services and carbon reporting.
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Self-Service Infrastructure: Empowering Teams to Move Fast
The future is developers who can move fast within safe guardrails. Self-service infrastructure makes that possible.
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Internal Developer Platforms: Scaling Developer Self-Service
IDPs in 2021 became the way to scale DevOps practices. They encode organizational knowledge into platforms that enable consistent, secure, and fast software…
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Developer Experience: Making Developers Productive and Happy
Developer experience in 2021 became a competitive advantage. Organizations that invest in DevEx attract better talent and ship faster.
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Platform Engineering: Building the Foundation for Developer Productivity
Platform engineering is about creating golden paths - paved roads that make it easy for developers to do the right thing. It's infrastructure as a product…
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DataOps Practices: Agile for Data Teams
DataOps in 2021 matured from concept to standard practice. Teams that adopted these practices delivered faster and more reliably than those stuck in manual…
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Data Observability: Monitoring Your Data Pipelines
Data observability is the capability that answers "is my data healthy right now?" the same way application observability answers "is my application healthy…
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Data Quality Practices: Building Trust in Your Data
Data quality in 2021 became an engineering discipline. The tools matured, but success requires organizational commitment to treating data as a product.
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Synthetic Data Generation: When Real Data Isn't Available
Synthetic data in 2021 became practical for production use. The key is validating that synthetic data maintains the statistical properties needed for your…
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Differential Privacy in Machine Learning: Protecting Individual Data
Differential privacy ensures that the output of a computation doesn't reveal whether any individual's data was included. The key insight: add calibrated…
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Federated Learning: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Federated learning in 2021 moved from research to practical deployment. Healthcare, finance, and mobile applications led adoption where data privacy is…
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Edge AI: Deploying Machine Learning at the Edge
Edge AI in 2021 became accessible to mainstream developers. Azure IoT Edge, ONNX Runtime, and improved hardware made edge deployment practical for real…
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Carbon-Aware Computing: Building Climate-Conscious Applications
Electricity grids mix various energy sources. Carbon intensity varies by: Time of day (solar peaks midday) Weather (wind varies) Demand (peak hours often…
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Green Computing in the Cloud: Sustainability at Scale
Green computing in 2021 became a real consideration, not just marketing. Azure's commitment to carbon negative by 2030 provides the tools; it's up to us to…
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FinOps Practices: Managing Cloud Financial Operations
FinOps in 2021 grew from a niche practice to an organizational capability. The tools exist; success requires culture change and executive support.
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Cost Optimization Strategies for Azure Workloads
Cost optimization in 2021 became a core cloud competency. The tools are powerful; success requires discipline and cultural change.
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Data Governance Best Practices: From Policy to Practice
Data governance in 2021 moved from documentation exercise to operational capability. Azure Purview provides the foundation; success depends on…
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Identity-First Security: The New Perimeter
Identity-first security in 2021 meant rethinking how we control access. The tools are mature; the challenge is implementation discipline.
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Zero Trust Security in Azure: Trust Nothing, Verify Everything
1. Verify Explicitly : Always authenticate and authorize based on all available data points 2. Least Privilege Access : Limit user access with just in time…
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GitOps Practices: Declarative Infrastructure and Application Delivery
1. Declarative : Desired state is expressed declaratively 2. Versioned and Immutable : Git stores the canonical desired state 3. Pulled Automatically :…