The best solution when faced with a known security vulnerability is to upgrade to the latest version of the product where the issue no longer exists. However, that is often a heck of a lot more complicated than it sounds when Mitigating security concerns. Although performing an upgrade is typically the most secure option, all… READ MORE
Azure cloud solutions offer many advantages for IT workloads. There are five fundamental principles to help you optimize workload quality and results and have success in Azure. These principles are: Security, Cost, DevOps, Resiliency, and Scalability. Security: cloud workloads including applications and data must be protected from threats. Cost: correctly used, the cloud can be… READ MORE
In the last couple of months, I have fallen in love with Blazor. I can almost shout out: “imma firin mah Blazor!” Blazor makes it possible to produce interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript: Blazor is a web framework based on Asp.Net core: Blazor apps are composed of reusable web UI components implemented using C#,… READ MORE
The Cloud Adoption Framework is the One Microsoft approach to cloud adoption in Azure, consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers. The framework gives customers a set of tools, guidance, and narratives that help shape technology, business, and people strategies for driving desired business outcomes during their adoption effort. This guidance aligns to… READ MORE
When you build a regular web app in ASP.NET Core, you can easily hook bunch of tools to it in order to be able to generate OpenAPI definitions. With Azure Functions, this is slightly more complex and challenging. At the moment there doesn’t appear to be any official release and recommended guidance form Microsoft on how-to generate… READ MORE
According to the State of DevOps 2019, best practice use of version control is one of the foundations for improving Software Delivery and Operational (SDO) Performance. In this first part of a three part guide, you’ll be working with Git and Azure DevOps to setup a repository which you’ll use for source control. Source control, also… READ MORE
A couple of weeks ago, I was tasked to implement authentication between the services we have in our Azure landscape. I knew this can be done by using the Managed Identity, as we were doing this on a project I was involved with in the past. However, I had never actually done this myself. Most… READ MORE
Azure solutions that span multiple regions are more and more requested. There are several options to deploy Azure resources across regions and ARM templates are one of them. It’s very easy, let me explain! In this example, we’ll deploy an App Service Plan in two regions. One will act as the primary region, the other… READ MORE
Introduction As many of you may know I have been involved with Azure from its very beginning. As a Microsoft Architect Evangelist, and later as a Consultant, I have helped many Microsoft customers and partners adopt Azure successfully. Some of these engagements have involved creating brand-new greenfield applications to run in Azure. However, many of… READ MORE
If you are looking to gain focus on cloud technologies, the first step and question that you must ask yourself if “Where do I Start?” There are different avenues that you can take to become Generalist: with the foundational understanding in multiple clouds Fundamentals/Practitioners: where you get the base level certification available for the cloud… READ MORE
