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Azure Service Bus: Queues and Topics Patterns
Service Bus is the backbone of reliable, decoupled architectures on Azure.
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MLflow on Azure Databricks: Experiment Tracking
MLflow makes ML experiments reproducible and models traceable.
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Azure Front Door: Global Load Balancing and CDN
Front Door is the global entry point for serious production workloads.
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Azure Data Factory Triggers: Scheduling and Event-Driven Pipelines
A Data Factory pipeline without a trigger is a stored procedure that nobody calls. Triggers are the boring half of orchestration that decides whether your…
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Azure Bastion: Secure VM Access Without Public IPs
The extra cost of Bastion is worth the security posture improvement.
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Azure Monitor Alerts and Action Groups
Alerts should be actionable. If you can't do anything about it, it's noise.
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Azure Private Link: Secure Access to PaaS Services
By default, Azure PaaS services (Storage, SQL, Cosmos DB) have public endpoints. Even with firewall rules, data transits the public internet.
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Azure Container Instances: Serverless Containers
For "I need to run this container for an hour to crunch some data," ACI is the right answer roughly nine times out of ten. AKS is overkill, App Service for…
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Azure API Management: API Gateway Patterns
Three years ago a client asked me to "put a gateway in front of my APIs." It turned into a six-month conversation about rate limiting, OAuth, partner…
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Azure SQL Managed Instance: SQL Server in the Cloud
Things you can't do in Azure SQL Database but can in Managed Instance. Real-time replication from on-premises SQL Server to Managed Instance - useful for…
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5 Years of being a Microsoft MVP!
Wow! It’s been 5 years since my first Microsoft MVP award. If you don’t know what the Microsoft MVP program is, check this site. Throughout the years, I…
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Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise: High Performance Caching
Redis Enterprise: when standard caching isn't enough.
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Azure Logic Apps for Enterprise Integration
Logic Apps excels at the unglamorous middleware work — turning the SOAP service the warehouse system exposes into the REST endpoint the new mobile app…
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Azure Machine Learning Designer for No-Code ML
Designer democratizes ML for teams that don't live in code.
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Power BI Dataflows: Self-Service ETL
Dataflows bridge the gap between self-service BI and governed enterprise data.
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Azure Event Hubs with Kafka API
The Kafka API compatibility makes Event Hubs a drop-in replacement for many streaming scenarios.
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Introduction to Delta Lake on Azure Databricks
Anyone who's run a "data lake" for any length of time has hit the same wall: parquet files everywhere, no transactional guarantees, partial-write disasters…
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Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines for Data Projects
The Azure DevOps Classic editor is comfortable, and I've watched many teams resist moving away from it for that exact reason. Until they need to branch a…
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Terraform Azure Provider: Infrastructure as Code Basics
After several years of writing ARM templates, picking up Terraform felt like getting glasses for the first time. The same infrastructure-as-code idea, but…
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Azure Cognitive Search Indexers for Document Processing
Most "search" tutorials I see stop at "create an index, push some JSON, query it." That's the easy 10%. The 90% that matters in real projects is the indexer…
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Azure Data Explorer or Log Analytics? Choosing Where Logs Live
Log Analytics and Azure Data Explorer share the Kusto engine; here is when a dedicated ADX cluster is worth it for log data and when it isn't.
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Power Automate Custom Connectors: Design the OpenAPI File First
Why the OpenAPI 2.0 definition decides whether a Power Automate custom connector gets used, plus x-ms extensions, auth, paconn and licensing.
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Cosmos DB Change Feed: Functions Trigger or Change Feed Processor?
How to choose between the Azure Functions trigger and the .NET SDK v3 change feed processor, and the leases, retries and delete gaps that decide it.