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Azure Virtual Network Peering: Connect VNets Seamlessly
Share VPN/ExpressRoute gateway across peered VNets. VNet peering is the foundation of Azure network architecture.
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Azure Cosmos DB Partitioning Strategies
Of every Cosmos DB design conversation I've had, partition key choice is the one that has the biggest cost-and-performance consequence and the smallest…
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Azure Durable Functions: Orchestration Patterns
Function chaining, fan-out/fan-in, human interaction, and eternal orchestrations — Durable Functions exposes a small set of patterns that cover most…
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GitHub Actions for Azure Deployments
Azure DevOps Pipelines was the obvious answer for years. GitHub Actions in 2020 changed that calculus — for any project where the source already lives on…
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Azure AD B2C: Customer Identity Management
B2C handles the complexity of customer identity so you can focus on your application.
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Azure Kubernetes Service: Managed Kubernetes
Azure Kubernetes Service: Managed Kubernetes
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Azure Cognitive Services: AI APIs for Every Developer
"We want AI in my app" is a sentence I hear at least twice a month. Eight times out of ten the answer isn't "train a custom model" — it's "use Cognitive…
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Microsoft Dataverse: The Power Platform Database
Dataverse is the glue that connects Power Platform components.
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Azure Resource Graph: Query All Your Azure Resources
Resource Graph is essential for understanding your Azure estate at scale.
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Azure Blueprints: Repeatable Environment Templates
Blueprints ensure every environment starts from a known, compliant state.
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Azure Policy: Governance at Scale
Every Azure environment I've inherited from someone else has the same three problems: storage accounts created without encryption-at-rest configuration…
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Azure Synapse Serverless SQL (Preview): Query Your Data Lake
A second Synapse-preview note, on what I think is the genuinely new idea in the platform: serverless SQL. Point T-SQL at parquet, CSV, or JSON in your data…
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Azure Synapse Spark Pools (Preview): Big Data Processing
Spark on Synapse is the same managed Spark story most cloud providers offer now, but it's done with the parts of Azure I already use — same workspace as the…
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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: Foundation of Modern Data Platforms
Gen2 is the standard for new data lakes on Azure. ADLS Gen2 is the foundation. Build your data platform on solid ground.
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Azure Stream Analytics: Real-Time Data Processing
Stream Analytics is one of those services I keep recommending and clients keep being surprised by — SQL on top of an event firehose, with windowing and…
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Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: Real-Time Analytics
Synapse Link: analytics without the pipeline complexity.
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Synology NAS Series – Cloud Sync with Azure Storage
Synology reached out to me to give their new DiskStation DS920+ a review. If you're not yet aware of Synology, they are the leading NAS…
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Azure Functions with Python: Getting Started
.NET on Functions is the default story Microsoft tells, but in practice the serverless workload that lands on my desk most often is a Python data scientist…
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Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Management
Savings: $1,700/year for 1TB Set up lifecycle policies on day one. Future you will thank past you for the cost savings.
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Power BI Row-Level Security: Data Access Control
In Desktop: Modeling → View as Roles → Select role → Enter email to test RLS enables true multi-tenancy in Power BI, where one dataset serves many users…
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Azure Automation Runbooks for Cloud Operations
Every cloud team eventually accumulates a folder full of "scripts I run monthly" — clean up old resource groups, rotate certificates, scale down dev…
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Azure Application Gateway: Layer 7 Load Balancing
"Why don't I just use Azure Load Balancer?" is the question I get most often when someone first sees Application Gateway in the architecture diagram. The…
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Azure Cosmos DB Consistency Levels Explained
Strong and Bounded Staleness cost double because reads wait for quorum. Start with Session - it provides intuitive consistency for users while maintaining…
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Azure SQL Elastic Pools: Cost-Effective Multi-Tenancy
Elastic pools are ideal for SaaS multi-tenancy where tenant databases have varied, unpredictable loads.