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Cloud platforms, workload architecture, operations, storage, and infrastructure.
Managed identity problems cross four different boundaries Managed identity replaces stored application credentials with an Azure-managed Microsoft Entra principal. It does not itself…
Read articleAzure Virtual Network peering connects two virtual networks so resources can communicate over the Microsoft backbone by using private IP addresses. The connection…
Read articleAzure Storage redundancy is a choice about which physical failures your data copies are designed to survive. LRS protects against local hardware failures…
Read articleAzure Storage gives administrators several ways to authorize data access, and the most important design choice is whether the caller should authenticate as…
Read articleAzure administration becomes easier when resource groups, management groups, subscriptions, and locks are treated as management boundaries instead of as folders. A resource…
Read articleAzure role-based access control becomes much easier when every permission decision is reduced to three questions: who is the principal, what role definition…
Read articleAzure monitoring becomes much easier once metrics, logs, and alerts are treated as parts of one operating system rather than as three unrelated…
Read articleAzure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway both distribute traffic, but they solve different networking problems. In Microsoft AZ-104 network design, choosing between…
Read articleAzure Backup design is easy to underestimate because the first visible object is a vault and the first visible action is usually “enable…
Read articleNetworking on Linux begins with a few durable ideas: an interface has addresses, routes decide where packets go, DNS translates names, and tools…
Read articleWorkload Identity Federation lets workloads authenticate to Google Cloud by exchanging credentials from an external identity provider for short-lived Google Cloud credentials instead…
Read articleSecurity Command Center is Google Cloud’s centralized risk management platform for discovering vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, threats, posture drift, and other security findings across cloud…
Read articleCloud guardrails define what teams are allowed to create, where they can create it, and which security boundaries cannot be bypassed. In Google…
Read articlePub/Sub is often introduced as a simple publish-and-subscribe service, but production design depends on much more than creating a topic and attaching a…
Read articleStreaming analytics is the practice of turning continuously arriving events into useful results while those events still have operational value. In Google Cloud,…
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