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Microsoft Identity Platform: Modern Authentication for Developers
Azure AD : Identity provider OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect : Protocols Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) : Client libraries Microsoft Graph : API for…
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Azure AD B2B Collaboration: Secure Partner Access
Guests appear in your directory but authenticate elsewhere.
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Azure AD B2C Custom Policies: Advanced Identity Flows
User Flows: Pre-built, configurable through portal Custom Policies: XML-based, fully customizable
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Azure AD Conditional Access: Zero Trust Authentication Policies
Conditional Access is where the "never trust, always verify" principle of Zero Trust actually gets operationalised. Every sign-in to every app goes through…
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Microsoft Defender for Identity: Protecting Your Active Directory
The service identifies: Reconnaissance : Attackers gathering information about your environment Compromised credentials : Pass the hash, pass the ticket,…
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Azure Security Center and Microsoft Defender: Unified Cloud Security
Microsoft Defender for Cloud includes: CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management): Free tier with security recommendations CWP (Cloud Workload Protection):…
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Azure Sentinel SOAR: Automating Security Response
In Sentinel, SOAR is implemented through Playbooks (Logic Apps) and Automation Rules.
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Container Monitoring on Azure: AKS Insights and Beyond
Container Insights is the built in monitoring solution for AKS: This deploys: OMS agent as DaemonSet Metrics collection Log forwarding to Log Analytics…
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Prometheus with Azure Monitor: Unified Observability
Azure Monitor for Prometheus addresses these while maintaining compatibility.
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Azure Managed Grafana: Visualization for Cloud Observability
Grafana on Azure became substantially easier when Azure Managed Grafana reached general availability. Before that, teams ran Grafana on AKS or a VM, managed…
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InfluxDB on Azure: Deploying Time-Series Infrastructure
For development or small workloads: For production workloads, use AKS with persistent volumes:
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TimescaleDB on Azure: Time-Series Data at Scale
TimescaleDB is the time-series database I recommend to teams that are already comfortable with PostgreSQL and don't want to learn a new query language or…
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PostgreSQL Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure: Distributed Database Patterns
Hyperscale uses the Citus extension to create a distributed database: Coordinator : Routes queries, stores metadata Workers : Store data shards, execute…
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Azure Database for MySQL: Flexible Server Deep Dive
For larger databases, use Azure Database Migration Service.
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Azure SQL Managed Instance: Migration Patterns and Best Practices
Azure SQL Managed Instance is the SQL Server target I recommend most for lift-and-shift migrations from on-premises SQL Server. It's PaaS—no OS to patch…
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Azure Arc Data Services: Azure SQL and PostgreSQL Anywhere
Arc data services let you run Azure-managed databases on your own infrastructure while using Azure tools for management.
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Cosmos DB Integrated Cache: Reducing RU Costs at Scale
The Cosmos DB integrated cache is the feature I've been waiting for since the first time I watched a read-heavy application burn through its RU budget…
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Exploring the OpenAI GPT-3 API: Practical Patterns and Techniques
This is direct OpenAI access - enterprise Azure integration may come in the future. response = openai.Completion.create( engine="text-davinci-002"…
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Azure Cognitive Services: Building Intelligent Applications
Cognitive Services in mid-2021 is a sprawling catalogue—vision, speech, language, decision—that can be disorienting to navigate. Today's post is the…
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Azure Percept: Edge AI Development Made Accessible
The goal is reducing the time from idea to edge-deployed AI from months to days. The platform uses Azure Custom Vision under the hood but abstracts away the…
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Microsoft Graph Data Connect: Bulk Access to Microsoft 365 Data
Graph Data Connect solves this by delivering bulk extracts of Microsoft 365 data directly to Azure Data Factory.
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Power Platform Governance for Enterprise: DLP Policies and Environments
Power Platform governance is the problem that doesn't announce itself until it's already serious. I've walked into tenants where three hundred flows were…
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Azure Applied AI Services: Pre-Built AI for Common Scenarios
Applied AI Services are Microsoft's answer to "I need AI in this process, but I don't want to wire up five Cognitive Services and build the integration…
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SQL Server to Azure SQL Migration - A Complete Guide
SQL Server to Azure SQL migration is the database journey I've been on more times than any other, and the first decision that shapes everything else is…