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Why You Should Try Being Self-Employed at Least Once
Five reasons running your own business is worth trying at least once, from the MBA you earn by doing to finding out what clients will actually pay you.
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Cosmos DB Change Feed in Production: Failures, Leases and Lag
Running Cosmos DB change feed consumers in production: Functions trigger vs processor, poison batches, dead-lettering, idempotency and lag estimation.
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Key Vault Beyond the Basics: RBAC, Soft-Delete and Expiry Events
Vault topology, the Azure RBAC preview versus access policies, default soft-delete, and rotating secrets from Event Grid expiry events, as of January 2021.
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APIM Policies in Production: Limits, Fan-out and Fallbacks
Four Azure API Management policy patterns that hold up in production: identity-aware limits, Key Vault named values, parallel fan-out and stale fallbacks.
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Power Automate Desktop at GA: Designing RPA Flows That Survive
How to design Power Automate Desktop flows that survive UI changes, when to choose attended or unattended RPA, and when an API beats a bot.
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Triaging Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations Before You Act
Which Azure Advisor cost recommendations are safe to act on, which need judgement, and how to pull, tune and suppress them with the CLI and Python SDK.
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Azure Monitor Workbooks as an Incident Triage Tool, Not a Wallboard
Design an Azure Monitor workbook for incident triage on workspace-based Application Insights, with sampling-safe KQL, drill-down and ARM deployment.
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Wiring a Medallion Pipeline on Azure Databricks with Auto Loader
How to connect Auto Loader, Structured Streaming and Delta MERGE into a bronze, silver and gold pipeline that restarts safely and doesn't run up the bill.
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Azure Arc for Kubernetes: One GitOps Baseline Across Every Cloud
How to use the Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes preview, Flux GitOps and Azure Policy to give EKS, GKE and on-prem clusters one governed baseline.
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Form Recognizer Invoices in Production: Confidence Gates and Review
How to put Form Recognizer's preview invoice model behind confidence thresholds, business-rule checks and a human review queue before data reaches the ERP.
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ACS Video Calling in Preview: Tokens, Calls and Rendering
A 1:1 video call on the Azure Communication Services preview SDKs: a token service, a refreshing credential, and rendering remote video correctly.
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Azure Static Web Apps Preview Auth: Roles, Invites and Limits
How auth really works in the Azure Static Web Apps preview: five managed providers, invitation-based roles, routes.json rules and hard limits.
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Azure Purview Preview: Decisions to Make Before You Scan Everything
A practical plan for an Azure Purview preview pilot: account layout, access roles, scan credentials, classifications, glossary and how preview billing works.
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Azure Data Explorer for IoT Telemetry: Ingestion, Caching and Rollups
Designing an Azure Data Explorer database for device telemetry: queued vs streaming ingestion, hot cache sizing, materialized views and KQL time series.
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Five Ways I Get Unstuck When Procrastination Wins
Five habits I use when I know what I should be working on but can't start: cut distractions, shrink the task, commit to a peer, schedule it and be kind.
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Power BI Incremental Refresh in Production: Folding, Partitions, XMLA
What breaks once Power BI incremental refresh is live: query folding, change detection, republishing, and managing partitions through the XMLA endpoint.
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Service Bus Sessions, Transactions and DLQs in the New .NET SDK
How to use Azure Service Bus sessions, session state, transactions and dead-letter queues with the Azure.Messaging.ServiceBus 7.0 SDK, and when not to bother.
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Designing Domain Events for Azure Event Grid Custom Topics
How to design the event contract, topic boundaries, filters and consumers for Azure Event Grid custom topics, and which .NET SDK to use in January 2021.
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Azure Logic Apps Preview: What the Redesigned Runtime Changes
The new Logic App (Preview) resource runs workflows on the Azure Functions runtime: what changes, what's missing, and how I'd pilot it before GA.
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Cosmos DB Serverless vs Provisioned: Working Out the Break-Even
How to work out whether Azure Cosmos DB serverless (preview) beats 400 RU/s of provisioned throughput, with the break-even maths and a way to measure it.
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Databricks SQL Analytics in Preview: What to Test Before You Commit
SQL Analytics on Azure Databricks is in public preview. Here is what it is, how to pilot it properly, and when Synapse or Power BI alone is the better fit.
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From Non-Reader to ~100 Books: How I Built a Reading Habit
I barely finished a chapter before 2018. Since then I've read close to 100 books. Here's what changed, how I read, and how I choose what to read next.
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Explain and Fairness-Check an Azure ML Model Before You Ship It
A pre-deployment review for Azure ML models using azureml-interpret and Fairlearn 0.5: what to measure, how to log it to a run, and what it can't tell you.
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AI Across the Microsoft Cloud: Choosing the Right Layer in 2021
A practitioner's map of AI and ML options across Azure, Power Platform and Microsoft 365 in early 2021, and how to pick the right layer for a problem.