I had created these mind maps during my preparation for AZ-303 and AZ-304 exams. If you are planning to take up Azure Solution Architect Expert Certification, or, if you would like to have a quick high level overview of the platform, these might be handy. Note: All of these may…

Hey folks, For the ones who have been following me here for a while, know I’m passionate about Azure and DevOps (and yes, also Azure DevOps, lol). But to be honest, I’ve been eyeing to another Azure Service for a while, Azure Chaos Studio, available in public preview. This article…

Azure Functions, a serverless compute service provided by Microsoft Azure, offers a powerful and scalable platform for executing small, event-driven code snippets in the cloud. With the added capability of Blob Bindings, Azure Functions become even more versatile, allowing seamless integration with Azure Blob Storage. This article explores the benefits…

Azure Event Hubs is a highly scalable data streaming platform that enables the collection, storage, and processing of large volumes of data from different sources. It can handle millions of events per second, making it a perfect choice for data-intensive applications that require real-time processing. …

Welcome to this in-depth guide, we will walk through the seamless process of setting up custom error pages within our Azure Application Gateway. Let’s deep dive… Introduction Greetings to all DevOps engineers striving to enhance their applications’ user experience! …

Infrastructure modernization, from on-premises to Microsoft Azure with backup solution using Azure Files, Azure Backup and Recovery Services Vault. In this project based on a real-world scenario, I acted as a Cloud Specialist to modernize and migrate an on-premises infrastructure environment to Microsoft Azure. I deployed a set of Virtual…

In another project based on a real-world scenario, I worked as a Cloud Engineer using DevOps, where I deployed a serverless website in a 100% automated way using Azure DevOps Repos and Azure DevOps Pipelines resources. Azure DevOps Organization and a new project have been created. The Azure DevOps Repos…

How To Build and Deploy MEVN Stack on Azure App Services — This is Lab 16 of the Azure Developer Certification exam with an example project. Check this out for the Lab 1 If you want to deploy your application on the managed platform by selecting the runtime, An App Service is the right choice. You can create a function app, web…

Abstract There are two important types of distributed system architectures: message-based and event-based. Message-based solutions use queues to store and process messages, while event-based solutions are built on the concept of events that are triggered by certain conditions. Message-based solutions are great for applications that require reliable messaging or complex routing…

You’ve undoubtedly heard about serverless and read about the benefits. But implementing serverless into your app doesn’t have to be all or nothing. — For years I’ve been proud to say I build 100% serverless cloud applications. I wore it as a badge of honor that the software I designed could elastically scale at every tier and cost virtually nothing to run at small to medium scale. I used to introduce myself to people…

FinOps is a growing financial management approach that maximizes business value by promoting collaboration among engineering, finance, IT, and business teams to utilize the cloud’s variable cost model. It is a cultural practice that involves everyone taking responsibility for their cloud usage, supported by a central best-practices group. The FinOps…

Choosing Between Kappa and Lambda Architecture During my tenure as a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, I had the privilege of engaging with a diverse range of clients spanning various domains. one sought my expertise in crafting an architecture design for efficient Data Processing. A critical aspect of this endeavor…

Configuring Azure FrontDoor For NodeJS APIs Running on Azure Functions With APIM — This is Lab 4 of the Azure Developer Certification exam with an example project. Check this out for the Lab 1 Imagine you have deployed your application on Azure Functions and configured the APIM and the APIM provides all the features such as routing to different apps based on the…

With increasing popularity of Microservices, most of the workloads are now hosted on cloud platforms. With this comes the need for increased security and sometimes for workloads or service that will only be accessed by another service (service to service communications). In such cases, OAuth 2 is a good modern…

Microsoft Azure has a new Serverless Application Platform for Containers available in addition to a couple other nice improvements around GitHub Actions and Azure Monitor. Therefore I wanted to revisit the quite complicated scenario of performing continuous blue/green deployments on Kubernetes and Azure and show you how to implement it…

The Hub and Spoke network architecture are fairly simple. There is Hub virtual network that acts as a central point connecting many other spoke virtual networks. Spoke virtual networks are used to share isolated workloads. Below is a typical Hub and Spoke network on Azure: In this article, we will…

Modern authentication such as OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect is commonly used in modern web applications and APIs. A common Simple Page Application (SPA) with modern authentication enabled has a similar flow as below (simplified): To further safeguard the backend API, it is common that we place an…

Introduction Over recent years I’ve been fortunate to have worked across a wide number of Microsoft Azure projects in various “architect” roles. Some organizations are lifting-and-shifting existing workloads to virtual machines. Others are re-platforming legacy .NET applications to Windows containers running on Azure Kubernetes Service. Whilst others are building cloud-first applications…

In a previous post, I provided an overview of Azure’s DNS Private Resolver service and how it may be used for two fairly basic but common name resolution scenarios - Azure virtual machines (VMs) to on-premises name resolution On-premises to Azure Private DNS zone name resolution As a quick recap…

App Service on Containers — Introduction This is the third part of Azure mini-series Azure explained deep enough Part1: Azure explained deep enough: learn and get certified Part2: Azure explained deep enough: Containers Part3: Azure explained deep enough: Azure PaaS <- this blog Part4: Azure explained deep enough: Azure DevOps Azure App Service is a fully…