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Azure Migrate: Cloud Migration Made Simple
Every migration project I've run has the same first two weeks: spreadsheet hell. What's running, what does it talk to, what's the dependency graph, what…
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Azure DDoS Protection: Defend Against Attacks
DDoS Protection Standard provides cost credits for attack-related scaling. Azure DDoS Protection: resilience against the largest attacks.
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Azure Bastion: Secure VM Access Without Public IPs
Jump boxes are one of those legacy patterns I keep finding in environments I inherit. A Windows VM with RDP open to the internet, "for admin access only,"…
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Azure Communication Services: Voice, Video, Chat, SMS
Azure Communication Services: Teams-grade communication in your apps.
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Azure Automation DSC: Desired State Configuration
DSC: configuration as code for infrastructure compliance.
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Azure NetApp Files: Enterprise File Storage
Azure NetApp Files: enterprise storage performance in the cloud.
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Azure Media Services: Video Streaming Platform
Azure Media Services: broadcast-quality video for everyone.
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Azure Notification Hubs: Push Notifications at Scale
Push notifications look easy until you're maintaining four sets of credentials (APNs, FCM, WNS, ADM) and writing platform-specific payloads for each.…
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Azure Spring Cloud: Managed Spring Boot Platform
Azure Spring Cloud: enterprise Java without infrastructure burden.
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Azure Cosmos DB Serverless: Pay-Per-Request NoSQL
Cosmos DB Serverless: NoSQL without the commitment.
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Azure App Configuration: Centralized Settings Management
"Why is the staging environment talking to the production database?" is a sentence I never want to hear again, and yet—when configuration lives in…
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Azure Video Indexer: AI-Powered Video Analysis
Video Indexer: unlock the content inside your videos.
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Azure Functions Custom Handlers: Any Language
Functions has supported "any language" via the worker model for a while, but custom handlers are the cleaner option when your runtime isn't on the supported…
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Azure Monitor Workbooks: Custom Visualizations
Every dashboard request that hit my inbox in 2019 had the same wishlist: parameters at the top, charts that talk to each other, KQL on the inside, and…
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Azure Firewall: Network Security Fundamentals
Azure Firewall: cloud-native network security without the complexity.
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Azure Virtual WAN: Enterprise-Scale Networking
The hub-and-spoke topology I've drawn on whiteboards for years is what Virtual WAN turns into a deployable resource. A managed hub per region, automatic…
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Azure Machine Learning Pipelines: MLOps Workflows
The first ML model I helped put into production was a notebook a data scientist ran by hand every Monday morning. That worked exactly as well as you'd…
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Azure Confidential Computing: Encrypt Data in Use
"It can't be processed if it can't be decrypted, but you can't process encrypted data." That truism quietly stopped being true. Confidential Computing uses…
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Azure Synapse Analytics is Now Generally Available
All of this is unified through Synapse Studio - a single workspace where data engineers, data scientists, and analysts can collaborate.
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Azure Cognitive Services Containers: AI On-Premises
"Can I use Cognitive Services if my data can never leave the country?" I get this question from public-sector and healthcare clients constantly. The answer…
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Azure Front Door WAF: Web Application Firewall
A WAF in front of every public app is no longer a nice-to-have. Bots scan you within minutes of going live, and "we'll add WAF later" is how breaches…
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Azure Batch: Large-Scale Parallel Computing
Embarrassingly parallel workloads are the ones I most enjoy moving to Azure. Render farms, Monte Carlo simulations, batch image processing, genomic…
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Azure Site Recovery: Disaster Recovery as a Service
DR planning is the part of every project that gets bumped to "Sprint 9" and then to "next quarter." ASR is good enough that it makes the bump indefensible.…
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Azure DevOps Test Plans: Quality Assurance at Scale
Automated tests are the bulk of my testing pyramid, but there's a tier you can't replace: the human running through a workflow looking for the thing nobody…