140 Blog Posts To Learn About Azure

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11 Jul 2026

Let's learn about Azure via these 140 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology.

Azure is Microsoft's comprehensive cloud computing platform. It matters for providing a vast array of services, from computing and storage to AI and IoT, enabling businesses to build, deploy, and manage applications and infrastructure at scale globally.

1. Logging in Azure with Application Insights and Serilog

This article reviews in details various aspects to make Application Insights and Serilog combination shine and bring real value to the logs.

2. Unlocking Azure: How to Build a Highly Flexible SQL Database Infrastructure

SDG tips on making SQL database infrastructure in Azure as flexible, efficient, and reliable as possible.

3. JWT and Azure AD Authentication: How to Marry Them?

The core principles of AD authentication for third-party services with the use of the MSAL Python library and Flask.

4. Automation of Rights, Permissions, and Access Levels in Azure DevOps

Customized solutions to automate rights, permissions, and access levels in Azure DevOps.

5. How to Use Datadog for the APM Metrics Application

Hacks on how to build a stable application monitoring and metrics system with Datadog.

6. How to use Azure Functions Core Tools to create a local.settings.json file and run Functions locally

We use Azure Function Core Tools to create a local.settings.json file and import our Function settings to that file so we can run our Functions locally.

7. Implement Dynamics REST API using Node.js [Tutorial]

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business applications platform that combines components of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), along with productivity applications and artificial intelligence tools, although currently Dynamics is more popular for its CRM capabilities.

8. Serverless Can Help You To Focus

Time is crucial in startups. We are experiencing a constant race against time. Your market might be time sensitive, and you need to grow fast. Most startups fail because they run out of cash and time. Serverless helps you spend time only on things that matter instead of stuff that seems shiny but isn’t essential.

9. Fixing Logging Issues In ASP.NET: TelemetryClient Vs. ILogger

TelemetryClient vs ILogger or how to improve logging experience in C# ASP.NET for Application Insights

10. Zone Resiliency in Azure Kubernetes Service

Learn how to ensure high availability and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service with zone resiliency.

11. How to Configure Self-hosted Azure DevOps Agents

In this article, I will show you the configuration process of a Self-hosted agent on macOS and Docker.

12. 10 Microsoft Azure Courses for Beginners to Learn Azure Cloud Computing

If you want to learn Microsoft Azure or prepare for AZ-900 or Microsoft Azure fundamentals exam and need the best resources, you have come to the right place.

13. Issues With Setting up Azure Functions with a Service Bus Trigger

So recently we had a problem. We’ve started building a micro-service based e-commerce platform that communicates using azure service bus. Unfortunately, we found that setting up azure functions with a service bus trigger either ended up with a lot of code to maintain or a lot of deployment pipelines. It was getting to be a pain, so we looked for an alternative which we found with logic apps and a bootstrapper function which I’ll take you through how to implement.

14. In-Depth Guide to Connecting your AWS and Microsoft Azure Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Let’s say that you have spent the last 2 years developing your enterprise services in either of the two cloud providers and now you decide to start using the other one. A possible scenario that would bring about such a requirement could be a migration from one cloud service provided to the other.

15. How to Integrate ServiceNow and Azure DevOps

Integrate ServiceNow and Azure DevOps in a few clicks. Utilize smart automation to improve cross-team communication and resolve critical issues much faster.

16. Deploying a Java Spring Boot app on AKS with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

In this post, learn how to run a Java Spring Boot application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and connects to Azure PostgreSQL using Azure AD Pod identity.

17. Automated Data Replication From AWS S3 To Microsoft Azure Storage Made Easy

It may be a requirement of your business to move a good amount of data periodically from one public cloud to another. More specifically, you may face mandates requiring a multi-cloud solution. This article covers one approach to automate data replication from AWS S3 Bucket to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage container using Amazon S3 Inventory, Amazon S3 Batch Operations, Fargate, and AzCopy.

18. How to Publish NuGet Packages to a Private Feed Using Azure Artifacts

We can publish NuGet packages to internal feeds hosted in Azure Artifacts easily via pipelines defined in YAML files.

19. Azure Hack: Use AzCopy on Azure Cloud Shell to Upload Large Files to Storage Accounts

A little backstory, I ran into an interesting problem today I needed to get a 40GB Virtual Machine Image to a storage account in Azure so i could create a Virtual Machine from it.

20. How to Run C# Azure Functions in an Isolated Process

We can run our C# Azure Functions in an isolated process, decoupling the version of .NET that we use in our functions from the runtime version.

21. How to Deploy a Serverless Node.js Application on Azure

This article will guide beginners in software development on how to deploy a serverless Node.js application on Microsoft Azure.

22. Setting up a Debugging Environment for Azure Functions 2.x using VS Code

Overview

23. How Bindings in Azure Functions Work

What Bindings are in Azure Functions, How they currently work with in-process Functions, and how they work a little differently for isolated functions.

24. SASS Processing in Azure Devops Pipeline

Compile SASS in a well developed Azure DevOps pipeline to streamline processes for your web infrastructure by using an existing DevOps extension already around.

25. A Quick Guide to Using Deployment Slots with Azure Functions

And how do they differ from non-serverless plans?

26. Exploring Azure's SSL Certificates: Our Journey with Let's Encrypt

A customized solution configuration that utilizes Let's Encrypt certificates. Lessons learned along the way.

27. Top 10 AI Development Companies in USA

Top 10 AI Software development companies in USA, UK & India. List of best artificial intelligence software company in United States - 2023 - 2024

28. 5 Entry level IT Certifications for Beginners in 2023

There are benefits to obtaining IT certifications regardless of where you are in your profession or how long you have been working in the field

29. Microsoft's DAPR (Distributed Application Runtime): An Overview

Discover the powerful capabilities of Dapr by implementing a sample application with microservices leveraging the actor model to foster its strengths.

30. How to Create Release Pipelines in Azure Devops in 7 Simple Steps

This article will explain how to create release pipelines in Azure Devops in seven simple steps.

31. Active storage with Azure [A How-To Guide]

Before I start rambling about my adventures with Rails, I want to do something I'd appreciate more people doing, and hey, be the change you want in the world, so the actual step by step is gonna be under the title THE ACTUAL TUTORIAL (in this same article, don't go D:), you can skip there if you're in a rush, but I think there's some value in the process of finding the answer, other than the answer itself, and I don't know, this is my way to communicate things. We all good? Ok, here we go.

32. AWS, Azure and GCP Pricing: The True Cost of DevOps

To make the choice between 3 market giants (Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud) clearer, we've conducted research on the pricing plans for DevOps services.

33. Tired of Broken Chatbots? This AI Upgrade Fixes Everything

Discover how function calling transforms AI. Learn implementation differences between OpenAI and Azure OpenAI, with practical code examples.

34. Tekton Pipelines in the Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster

CI\CD with Tekton Pipelines in AKS serverless Virtual Nodes

35. How to Run a Flask application with free GPU acceleration for students, using PyCharm

Many Deep learning or Machine Learning projects require GPU acceleration, and getting access to external GPUs or using GPU services by different cloud services can be costly, especially for students.

36. Resolving Deployment Issues with Ts-node and Azure Development Pipelines

In this article, we'll explore common pitfalls and potential solutions when working with TypeScript (using ts-node) in Azure Serverless Development Pipelines. T

37. Implementing Blue/Green Deployments with Azure Web Apps for Containers

Using Deployment slots, we can perform Blue/Green deployments in Azure App Service to achieve zero-downtime deployments for our containerized workloads.

38. This One Python Tool Fixed My AI's Function-Calling Chaos

Learn how to tame unpredictable AI outputs with Pydantic validation. This guide shows how to enforce consistent JSON structures from function calling.

39. Beginner's Guide to Deploying a Spring Boot App to Azure App Service

If you are building a Java-based spring boot app, but struggling to deploy app to Azure Cloud, this blog post is for you. It will provide a brief introduction of Azure App Service and App service Plans and a step-by-step guide to deploy Java based Spring boot app to Azure App service.

40. Azure Data Factory - Datasets and Linked Services

ADF Concepts & relation among the ADF components

41. How to Use C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB

In this article, I’ll show you how we can perform simple operations against a Azure Cosmos DB Table API account using the new Azure.Data.Table C# SDK.

42. How to Use Azure Functions to Build a QR Code Generator

How to build a fun QR code project and learn about Azure Functions at the same time. Using the latest .NET technologies.

43. IoT Performance Load Testing with Locust and Azure

Test the performance of an IoT system using Locust and Azure.

44. The Convergence of AI + IOT is Imminent & Your Competitor is Already Preparing for It

With the emergence of ever-cheaper and robust hardware, 5G connectivity around the corner, and most importantly, a growing list of real world use cases, we can all agree that IOT projects are here to stay. But is that where it ends ?

45. How to Set Up a Pipeline for Deploying Serverless Node.js on Azure

Hello, software adventurers! Today, we'll be embarking on a new journey — a journey where you'll learn how to set up a pipeline to deploy serverless Node.js app

46. Static Code Analysis  for Infrastructure as Code Using Azure DevOps Pipelines

This article explains how to set up static code analysis for infrastructure as code using Azure DevOps pipelines.

47. Is There a Future for Cloud-in-a-Box?

Cloud-in-a-box originally seemed like the perfect compromise, letting enterprises reinvent their aging data centers for today’s IT, built around a cloud-based model. It offered some of the important advantages of public cloud, like better optimization of computer resources and self-service.

48. How to Create a Serverless API Using Azure Cosmos DB

In this tutorial, we’ll build a Web API using Azure Functions that stores data in Azure Cosmos DB with MongoDB API in C#

49. Cloud Migration: Automated Discovery Tools And Their Benefits

With the advent of new tools, automation and orchestration are having an immense impact on easing the burden of moving to the cloud.

50. Site Reliability Engineering with Azure

Tools for SRE: Azure Monitor, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Policy, Azure Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Automanage, Azure Blueprint

51. Top Cloud Platform Comparison: 2021 Edition

This is a comprehensive research of the top cloud service providers, as well as some second-tier market players.

52. How to Mock Azure Event Hub in .Net Unit tests

.Net NUnit tests for Azure Functions with Event Hub Integration

53. Deploying CakePHP Project To The Cloud

Follow these steps to understand how to deploy a CakePHP application to the cloud. While some cloud providers offer simple solutions, you will notice that others require a bit more technical know-how for you to deploy an app.

54. How to Deploy an ASP.NET Core Web App in Azure From Docker Image

The story is about how fast to create and deploy ASP.NET Core web applications to Azure.

55. Azure SQL Benchmark : Comparing Performances Between DTU and vCore

Compare performance of Azure SQL offerings - DTU vs. vCore

56. Cloud Wars: AWS Vs. Azure Vs. Google Cloud

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are three cloud services that are the creations of three large worldwide corporations with a global customer base and a constant commitment to improving their services andproducts.

57. Efficient AKS Cluster Provisioning in a Virtual Network Using Terraform

Hello readers! Today, we're going to walk you through creating an AKS cluster within a Virtual Network (VNET) in Azure world using Terraform!!

58. ATLAS: A Multi-Agent AI Architecture for Natural Language Service Management

A technical deep-dive into building conversational AI interfaces for enterprise ITSM systems using a three-stage multi-agent pipeline.

59. Multi-Cloud Load Balancers, Explained: AWS vs GCP vs Azure (L4, L7, and Global Edge)

Choosing the right load balancer can make or break your application’s performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

60. Fast Prototyping With Azure Functions and TDD

I Had an Idea

61. SQL Server container in Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

So recently I got involved with an ASP.NET project which was build over 10 years ago and over the years Developers and Change Requests came and went. And over the period the Application became quite cumbersome and quite hard to understand and manage, the Application became quite large in terms of functionality, codebase and data.

62. Simple Steps To Connect SQL Azure To SSMS

Find out easy and sequential process on how to connect to Azure SQL Server and create a database using SQL Server Management Studio.

63. How to Create and Connecting Redis to a Serverless Node.js App on Azure

Hello, everyone! Today, we'll be diving into the fascinating world of software development, specifically dealing with Node.js, Azure and Redis.

64. Migration On-Premises Application to Serverless

Note: This article covers everything that I present in Viet Nam Web Summit 2019 (VNWS2019) — the biggest event of Viet Nam IT Community.

Nowadays, “Serverless” keyword becomes very popular. Serverless is changing how developers and companies alike approach delivering business value using the public cloud. You can easily find a dozen of articles regarding this keyword. However, I’m pretty sure that, there are not too many articles show you step-by-step to migrate an On-Premises application to Serverless, but in this article, I will do!

65. A Complete Inventory of Your AWS Footprint in 5 Minutes

Multi-cloud asset inventory for AWS, Azure, GCP.

66. Creating and Provisioning Azure Container Apps with Bicep

Using Bicep, we can deploy Azure Container Apps quickly and easily!

67. Azure's Perfect Storm: Unraveling the Biggest Cloud Disaster of 2024

On July 19, 2024, Microsoft’s Azure cloud services experienced a significant outage, causing widespread disruption.

68. How to Create an Azure API Management Instance using Bicep Lang via Azure DevOps

The more I use Bicep, the more I love it. This is what ARM Templates should have been.

69. AWS Vs. Azure: Key Differences and Business Benefits

The Big Three, Amazon, Azure, and Google, are driving the cloud computing market. The variety of opportunities they offer to businesses is endless which makes the decision even more difficult — which cloud will benefit my business the most?

70. How to Build and Deploy C# Azure Functions using Multi-Stage Pipelines in Azure DevOps

Using YAML Build pipelines, we can define our entire build and release pipeline in a single file!

71. Why the AWS, Azure, and GCP CLIs Need to Die

Why the AWS, Azure, and GCP CLIs need to die

72. Generating and Manipulating Text with Azure OpenAI Services

Learn to generate or manipulate text using Azure OpenAI service. This tool provides various models with an easy-to-use and efficient text-in, text-out interface

73. How to Optimize Data Insertion Into Synapse

This one will be helpful for anyone who works with Azure Synapse Analytics.

74. The AWS Outage Downed Slack, Zoom, and Notion, Among Others. A Multi-Cloud Approach Could've Helped

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a second in a row-major outage a few days ago. Most likely Slack, Zoom and Notion were affected by this.

75. AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Which One Delivers Most Value for the Price

How to choose the right cloud provider for your business? Read this updated 2021 pricing comparison for AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud.

76. Building Secure and Performant Web Applications Using Azure AD and .NET Core Identity on macOS

Secure and scalable web apps using Azure AD and .NET Core Identity on macOS with strong authentication and performance.

77. An Invitation to Hack Microsoft’s Azure Security Lab.

Disclaimer: I am not sponsored by anyway from Microsoft's Azure Team.

78. Enable Additional Logs in Azure Pipeline Execution With This Guide

Here we will learn how to enable the feature of getting additional logs.

79. 2023 Will Be the Year of Kubernetes (and Other Predictions in the Cloud and Infrastructure Industry)

Dive into the new year’s top cloud and infra-tech trends, straight from a cloud and infrastructure technology fanatic.

80. Serverless Functions with C#, Azure and AWS

This article will explain how to build serverless functions on the primary cloud providers services: Azure and AWS.

81. Using Jupyter/TensorBoard In Any Cloud With One Command

Using Terraform Provider Iterative for bespoke Machine Learning & Data Science on AWS, Azure, GCP and K8s

82. Golang: A Short History of My Tech Journey

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. That's how everything in our tech journey begins. We all got here with a single step, that slowly became multiple steps. Before we know it, we are a thousand miles in. When I first started my career, I was in helpdesk. Now, I’m a developer advocate. The way that happened was with thousands of steps.

83. Automating SwaggerHub User Management with Azure AD, Microsoft Graph, and Azure Functions

How to automate SwaggerHub user management with a mixture of Microsoft services including Azure and Graph with an API to keep things simple for developers.

84. CAST AI vs. Spot.io: Two Approaches to Automated Cloud Cost Optimization

Explore two automation solutions that use automation to optimize cloud costs: CAST AI vs Spot.io and see which one is a better pick for you.

85. 6 Simple Steps to Import a Project to Azure Repos from Git

This article will explain how to import a project from Git to Azure Repos in 6 easy steps.

86. Demystifying AI Adoption in Business: A Guide to Leveraging ChatGPT Technologies With Azure & Google

There are now ways for organizations to use the power of Large Language Model's to help their office workers be more productive while retaining data ownership.

87. Managing Active Directory Objects with Azure AD Provider for Terraform

Learn how to manage Active Directory Objects with Azure AD Provider for Terraform. See examples of how to authenticate and grant the correct permissions.

88. Cloud Orchestration Vs. Cloud Automation Explained

Nowadays, the public cloud has become the tech solution of choice for many companies, including Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook. Why? The reason is simple - due to flexible nature, public cloud solutions allow businesses to save money on unused resources. Moreover, cloud hosting is a perfect way to save time on managing and maintaining the data centers in which your data is stored since these are the responsibilities of your cloud service provider.

89. How To Set Up Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines for Android

Learn how to enable CI CD Pipelines to automatically deploy your Android App Bundle (.aab) build to the Google Play Console.

90. Features to Leverage While Implementing Azure DevOps in Your Organization

Do you know what's Azure DevOps and how can your business leverage its features while implementing them in your organization? Let's take a read at this blog.

91. IoT Performance Load Testing with Locust and Azure [Continuous Delivery]

We dig into how to continuously run Locust to ensure your deployments meet the minimum requirements.

92. Why Azure Arc is a Game Changer?

The sky is the limit with Azure ARC. Networking for your business can mean more than just getting servers and connecting them together. It can mean creating, developing, and evolving solutions to address your business' IT infrastructure needs.

93. Using Azure SignalR Service In DotNetify

How dotNetify implemented horizontal scaling of SignalR apps with proxy instead of a backplane.

94. Replacing Service Principal Secrets in Crossplane with Azure Workload Identity Federation

When using Crossplane to provision Azure resources from Kubernetes, authentication becomes a critical challenge.

95. Terraform State Management: A Deep Dive Beyond the Basics for Azure Deployments

Discover Terraform state management strategies for Azure deployments that go beyond basics to ensure security, scalability, and resilience at enterprise

96. Brewing Observability Insights: What LinkedIn, Netflix, and eBay Taught Me at Monitorama 2024

A Senior Product Manager's perspective on Portland's premier monitoring conference.

97. Building a Custom Solution for Financial Analytics

The success of financial services is highly dependent on data accuracy and analytics. Creating a custom solution helps to overcome this challenge.

98. The State of Cloud Automation and the Promise of Infrastructure Automation

The Cloud has become a familiar feature of the tech stacks at most organizations and is becoming much more than a place for server resources. At present, almost everything in our digital landscape is connected to a Cloud in one way or another.

99. Configuring SQL Server for High Availability in the Cloud

Every big Cloud service provider offers you guaranteed SLAs availability about 99.95 %, and this percentage of availability can make you think that cloud is perfect for a SQL Server deployment which requires High Availability. Azure and AWS are the two giants of cloud services, and their geographical distribution of data centers can leverage you to think of cloud for a SQL server development configured with disaster recovery.

100. Microsoft Azure Certifications: What is the difference between AZ-303 and AZ-304?

Cloud computing has become one of the most important features of the modern IT industry. Every client needs to have their application highly scalable.

101. How to Set up GitHub Enterprise Server on Azure (for Dummies)

The easiest way to install GitHub Enterprise Server on Azure! A simple to-do list to create your first virtual machine on Azure.

102. How to Get Started With Azure OpenAI Services

This is the first article of a series on Azure OpenAI Services. This article describes how to start and brings you directly to Azure OpenAI Service Studio.

103. How to Fix 401 Unauthorized Errors in Dockerized Azure Functions

Fixing 401 errors in Dockerized Azure Functions requires switching from file-based to blob-based secret storage. Learn why this happens and how to resolve it.

104. How to Build Token Refresh Service for the Fitbit API in Azure

We can generate a refresh and access token required to call the Fitbit API programmatically with a simple Timer trigger function in Azure.

105. A Quick Overview of Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD)

Learn the differences between Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) for seamless network and cloud identity management.

106. Azure's Four Levels of Management Explained in a Simple Way

Azure provides four levels of management scope, which are designed to provide flexibility and control in managing resources.

107. Simplifying Domain Management with Azure Front Door: A Step-by-Step Guide

Managing multiple Azure resources with custom domains can quickly become messy.

108. Ethics, AI, and Responsible ML: Design Principles and Potential Dangers

As we enter the 2020s, it is interesting to look back at how life has changed over the last decade. Compared to your life in 2010, most of you reading this probably use a lot more social media, watch more streaming video, do more shopping online and, in general, are “more digital”. Of course, this is as a result of the continued development in connectivity (4G becoming prominent, with 5G on the horizon), the capability of mobile devices, and lastly, the quiet and transparent adoption of machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, in the services that you consume.

109. Cloud Me a River: Is Multi-Cloud a Poor Practice?

What if you could just migrate between cloud providers in seconds while achieving the best cost and performance combination? CAST AI connects them

110. How To Use Ballerina in Azure Functions

Ballerina since v1.2.5 has built-in support for Azure Functions. In this way, you can take a Ballerina function and expose it as a serverless function in Azure Functions. Azure Functions take on a unique approach in defining serverless functions with the function trigger and bindings concept. In this way, we can access other cloud services such as storage services (queue, blob, etc.), CosmosDB, Twillio, and timers right from the function itself without any additional connectors or authentication processes. We map our parameters and return types with these bindings, which provides us direct access to the resources.

111. Get a Free Week on Cloud Academy To Kickstart Your Tech Training

Are you looking to make a jump in your technical career? Want to get trained or certified on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, DevOps, Kubernetes, Python, or another in-demand skill?

112. Taking the Azure Open AI Challenge - Day 1

The Microsoft team has recently launched an Open AI challenge, in which a developer can learn how to build Azure AI solutions and apps.

113. The DevOps Tools to Optimize your Workflow

Want to take a laugh at yet another boring list, right? I’ll try to surprise you with a list of unique tools that you probably still don’t know!

114. Cheapskate's Journey to On-Demand Load Tests with Locust

Published with permission by Rahul Rai

115. AWS Auto Scaling Groups: Have Fun Learning AWS Through Comics

This is a comic conversation tutorial between two guys that will explain the Auto Scaling concept easily.

116. The Way to Building Integrated Data Platforms with IoT Edge Devices and AI Algorithms "At the Edge"

There is growing demand in various industries, such as energy, agriculture, transportation, and also in scientific research fields, particularly environmental studies, for not only more intelligent and efficient data collection, but also for distributed and localised manipulation of the data being collected, in real-time.

117. Getting Started with Microsoft's PowerShell

Powershell forms an important part of automation in the azure and windows world. This article covers various considerations for powershell scripting.

118. Oilfield IIoT Architecture - To Build or Not To Build - That is the Question

Dive into the critical build-vs-buy decision for Industrial IoT (IIoT) architecture in the oil and gas industry.

119. Understanding Azure AZ-500 Certification Exam

Thinking about what is this AZ-500 test and on the off chance that you need to take it? Allow us to illuminate the subtleties to you!

120. How to Set Up Azure CDN For Lower Latency and Bandwidth Consumption

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps you deliver your content more quickly. Read more on how you can achieve that.

121. CNAPPgoat Part 1: The New Frontier for Cybersecurity Training

Explore the innovative CNAPPgoat tool in our comprehensive blog, detailing its modular architecture for cybersecurity training, vulnerability testing in cloud e

122. How to Reduce the Chances of an Outage

An outage (also known as downtime) is a period of time when a given service or system is unavailable, failing to provide and perform its primary functionality.

123. Why Small Businesses Shouldn't Move Away from Cloud Services

Humans possess a remarkable ability to nostalgically reminisce about dark times as if they were the best of times.

124. A Look at Use of API Gateways When Creating Complex Systems

API Gateways can help you create microservices and micro frontends, and expose rich APIs to your customers while keeping things simple on your company.

125. 6 Tips on How to Choose a Proper VM and Save on Your Cloud Costs

Did you know that 90% of applications have 5x more resources than they actually need?

126. What You Need To Know About Vertical and Horizontal Scaling

Enhance infrastructure using vertical and horizontal cloud scaling for cost-effective performance improvement without compromising quality

127. Securing Microsoft Active Directory

Active Directory is an integrated directory By Microsoft. Security is one of the major reasons why many companies have failed to invest in Active Directory.

128. Unified Data, Smarter Agents—Is Your Architecture Future-Proof?

A hands-on guide to architecting unified, governed and AI-ready data platforms using open table formats, semantic layers and multicloud governance.

129. Integrating An SAP ABAP System With The Ethereum Mainnet [A Step-by-Step Guide]

You’ve likely heard of Ethereum in the context of cryptocurrency, but perhaps not so much in the context of enterprise software.

130. The 10-Day .Net Aspire Challenge - Day 9: Azure Key Vault

Step-by-step guide on how to use the .Net Aspire Azure Key Vault component in Visual Studio.

131. Azure App Configuration for Advanced Feature Flag Management in ASP.NET Core

Learn how to use Feature Flags in ASP.NET Core apps and read values from Azure App Configuration.

132. CAST AI Extends Support to AWS, Azure, and GCP After Raising $10M

CAST AI platform that optimizes cloud spend now supports all three major cloud service providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.

133. A Comprehensive Guide for Backing Up and Restoring Azure SQL Databases

Discover why disaster recovery, data loss prevention, compliance, and testing and development are crucial aspects of a robust backup strategy.

134. Firecrawl Part 2: This Confidence Gate Decides When Bing Gets a Vote - How It Works

My enrichment pipeline shipped "Unknown" as a company name—silently. The fix: a confidence gate that checks usable fields, not return codes.

135. Running Azure IoT Edge for Node.js on Ubuntu 18.04

Azure IoT Edge is a relatively new addition to the Azure IoT cloud solution. It is used to analyze data on devices "at the edge" instead of in the cloud.

136. Cloud Cost Management Vs. Cloud Cost Optimization: Which is Better?

Cloud cost management doesn’t guarantee savings, automated optimization does.

137. How to Backup Your Microsoft Azure Storage Accounts

Azure Storage Account is one of the foundation services of Azure. Pretty much all other services use it under the cover in a way or another. This service is simple, works great, and has crazy SLA and redundancy capabilities. However, it doesn't provide a point in time restore. Meaning that if you corrupt or delete some data, there's no way to recover it. There are some solutions that you can find over the internet, but unfortunately, none of them is a silver bullet. Let's explore and compare some of them.

138. Making Our Data Actually Work for Us

Most organizations struggle with data scattered across multiple systems, inconsistent definitions and no clear ownership.

139. Sharing My Experience Attending MS Build 2020

This year was a special edition of MS Build; for obvious reasons, it was 100% virtual. I must say that I had my doubts at first, but I'm forced to admit that Microsoft nailed it. The experience was fantastic. I liked the personal schedule builder and the rebroadcast in 3 different timezones, to only name a few things. Microsoft even took the time to ship the conference's gear to all attendees, DIRECTLY to their doorstep, what a nice touch.

140. The Noonification: Proglogging: The Developers Detective Toolkit (10/9/2023)

10/9/2023: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage!

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