Tag: Azure
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Multi-Cloud load balancers, explained: AWS vs GCP vs Azure (L4, L7, and Global Edge)
Posted on January 22, 2026, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This guide provides a deep technical comparison of AWS, GCP, and Azure load balancers, detailing their L4/L7 architectures, performance characteristics, and optimal use cases. Learn to select the right service for microservices, global applications, and high-throughput workloads, with a special focus on protocols like GENEVE and flow hashing. By Piyush Jajoo.
Tags azure aws cloud devops performance
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How to integrate Azure security center with Azure monitor alerts
Posted on January 20, 2026, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Stream Azure Security Center alerts and recommendations to Azure Monitor for enhanced visibility, custom dashboards, and automated responses to security events. By Charbel Nemnom.
Tags azure streaming cloud infosec devops
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How to find and remove unused Azure Data Factory Pipelines
Posted on December 17, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A 20-line PowerShell snippet scans every subscription, flags ADF factories that haven't executed a pipeline in 30 days, and hands you a clean-up hit-list in seconds. By Dieter Gobeyn.
Tags web-development app-development devops azure big-data
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Free Windows web server with a Lets Encrypt SSL certificate in AWS
Posted on October 23, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Setting up a free Windows web server with Let's Encrypt SSL on AWS EC2 is surprisingly straightforward, even for those without extensive experience. By Angus Fox.
Tags infosec azure app-development ssl web-development
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What is Azure Local and why should SysAdmins care?
Posted on September 10, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Azure Local is not just a rebrand. It's a message. One that says Microsoft finally gets how confusing their cloud naming has been. Microsoft's hybrid story has been a bit confusing over the years, but now we have some clarity. By Andy Syrewicze.
Tags devops web-development app-development azure
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Microsoft entrusts DocumentDB to Linux Foundation
Posted on September 2, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microsoft has announced that DocumentDB, their distributed NoSQL database built on PostgreSQL, is joining the Linux Foundation. This represents a significant shift from Microsoft's traditional approach to database development. DocumentDB was initially created within Microsoft to handle document-oriented workloads (think JSON data) at scale, prioritizing high availability and flexibility. By Bobby Borisov.
Tags nosql database cio azure
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A 10x faster TypeScript
Posted on June 26, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Most developer time is spent in editors, and it's where performance is most important. We want editors to load large projects quickly, and respond quickly in all situations. Modern editors like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code have excellent performance as long as the underlying language services are also fast. With our native implementation, we'll be able to provide incredibly fast editor experiences. By Anders Hejlsberg.
Tags azure javascript app-development web-development performance
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Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Posted on May 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate external knowledge. By Taketomo Isazawa.
Tags azure cloud ai cio big-data
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What is Azure IoT edge
Posted on January 8, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
IoT Edge is a set of software and services that extends Azure capabilities to edge devices, enabling them to collect, analyze, and act upon data locally before sending it to the cloud. This architecture helps reduce latency, improve performance, and enhance security in industrial automation and other IoT scenarios. By learn.microsoft.com.
Tags iot cloud app-development azure learning cio
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How to use GPT to analyze large datasets
Posted on October 30, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Absorbing and then summarizing very large quantities of content in just a few seconds truly is a big deal. As an example, a while back I received a link to the recording of an important 90 minute business video conference that I'd missed a few hours before. By David Clinton.
Tags big-data machine-learning apis ai azure database cloud
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C++ Refactoring tools in Visual Studio
Posted on July 21, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code, while its outward functionality remains unchanged. By refactoring, you can simplify complex code structures, reduce code redundancy, and enhance code reusability. Visual Studio offers many tools to help refactor your C++ code. This article will delve into these tools, using the bullet3 open-source code as an example. By Mryam Girmay.
Tags code-refactoring how-to app-development azure
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Implement security breach prevention and recovery infrastructure
Posted on April 30, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
As part of Zero Trust adoption guidance, this article is part of the Prevent or reduce business damage from a breach business scenario and describes how to protect your organization from cyberattacks. This article focuses on how to deploy additional security measures to prevent a breach and limit its spread and to create and test a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) infrastructure to more quickly recover from a destructive breach. By BrendaCarter, joe-davies-affirm and MicrosoftGuyJFlo.
Tags devops azure ssl app-development infosec teams servers