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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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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.
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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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AKS, ACI or App Service? Choosing an Azure Container Platform
How I decide between AKS, Azure Container Instances and App Service for containers in early 2021, and why AKS is often the wrong first choice.
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Why It's Okay to Be an Ordinary Developer
The 10x engineer myth, vanity metrics and social media make good developers feel small; aim to beat your past self, not the top 1%.
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Azure Bicep v0.2: Learn It Now, Hold Off on Production
What Azure Bicep v0.2 can and can't do in January 2021, how to build and deploy it today, and why I'd learn it now but wait for v0.3 before production.
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Digital Intentionality: Don't Click That Next Button
Autoplay on YouTube, Netflix and Facebook decides what you watch next. Five tricks I use to stop letting the next button make that choice for me.
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Synapse Serverless SQL After GA: Designing a Lake Query Layer
How I'd structure Synapse serverless SQL now it's GA: a user database, credentials, views over the lake, CETAS, and habits that keep the per-TB bill small.
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My Only Goal for 2021: Digital Intentionality, Not Minimalism
Instead of chasing another tech trend in 2021, I'm working on one habit: using every device and app with a clear purpose, then putting it down when I'm done.
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Azure Functions on .NET 5: A First Look at the Isolated Worker Preview
What the .NET 5 isolated worker preview for Azure Functions looks like in January 2021, what it costs you today, and when to stay on .NET Core 3.1.
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Tamper-Evident Audit Trails in Azure SQL Database
How to make tampering detectable in Azure SQL Database with temporal tables, a T-SQL hash chain, auditing, and immutable blob storage.
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Azure in 2021: Where I'd Place My Bets This Year
Five Azure bets for 2021 on Arc, Synapse, Purview, edge and security, with what was GA versus preview on 1 January and where I'd hold back.
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Azure Year in Review: 2020 Highlights
It's New Year's Eve, the kids are asleep, and I'm wrapping up a year that nobody planned for. 2020 was the year cloud stopped being a strategic conversation…
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Azure Storage Account Security Best Practices
Storage accounts are deceptively easy to deploy and easy to misconfigure into a leak. Public blob containers are still the most common "how did this get…
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Azure Databricks Workspace Management
Spinning up a Databricks workspace is the easy part. Making it production-ready is where I see the most avoidable rework. Cluster policies, AAD passthrough…
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Azure Log Analytics: Central Logging Platform
Log Analytics is the database I've spent the most hours in this year that nobody calls a database. It's where every Azure diagnostic, AppInsights trace…
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Azure Application Gateway v2: Advanced Load Balancing
App Gateway v1 was a credible Layer 7 load balancer. v2 is the upgrade that makes it the default I reach for in front of internal AKS clusters and App…
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Azure LUIS: Language Understanding for Bots
LUIS: teaching machines to understand human language.
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Azure IoT Central: Managed IoT Platform
Christmas Day, and a quiet thought from a quiet house: most "IoT projects" never get past slide three because the team doesn't have the platform to back the…
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Azure Lighthouse: Multi-Tenant Management
"Can you log in to my tenant and fix it?" used to mean a guest account, an awkward password share, and a privileged role for a partner that frequently…