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The blog moved off WordPress to a static site on Azure Static Web Apps — and I rebuilt it the way I think we should all be building now: with AI-driven DevOps.
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All posts →VMSS Zonal Expansion: Add Availability Zones Without Rebuilding
Azure's VMSS zonal expansion lets you add availability zones to a live scale set instead of rebuilding it. Here's how it works, the validation gotchas, and what it doesn't fix.
Azure VM Hibernation: Same Bill as Stopped, Faster to Come Back
Hibernating an Azure VM costs exactly what stopping it does. The real trade-off is a bigger OS disk and losing Azure Backup, Spot, and Availability Sets, not the monthly bill.
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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Secure Access, Free by Default
Azure Bastion Developer gives you no-public-IP RDP/SSH access to one VM for $0/hour. Microsoft made the secure path the free path. Here's what it does, its real limits, and how it compares.
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Crash-Consistent Restore Points: Beyond Daily Azure VM Backups
Azure Backup's Standard policy for VMs only runs daily or weekly. Enhanced Policy's crash-consistent restore points fix that, and solve a harder problem: keeping multi-disk snapshots consistent.
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Azure B-Series: Burstable VMs That Actually Save Money
B-series VMs use a CPU credit model instead of guaranteed performance. For bursty workloads, that's roughly half the cost of a general-purpose VM. Here's how the credits actually work.
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Front Door vs. Traffic Manager vs. Cross-Region Load Balancer
Azure has three services that all claim to route users to the right region. They're not interchangeable. Here's the actual difference, and how to pick.
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Azure DDoS Protection
Why is our web app down or super slow to load all of a sudden?! Traffic numbers are through the roof! What is going on? Did we go viral? And that is how a denial of service attack looks. An…
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The Future of Azure Hybrid
Azure Hybrid services offer several key benefits and the future services that are coming are even more exciting.