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Exploring Azure AI - Face API

While facial recognition is, let’s say, a divisive , topic, it’s safe to say that it’s already used for many applications in our everyday lives. From actual security applications such as unlocking ...

Using Azure AI Services Containers

No matter how you feel about “AI”, these tools are here to stay, or at least for the time being, and Microsoft is definitely pushing them hard on Azure and with other products. While I’m partly in ...

Analyzing IoT Data Using Azure Stream Analytics

If you’ve ever used any kind of Internet of Things (IoT) device or platform, you’ll know that the data generated by sensors and devices holds immense value, and collecting that data is arguably the...

Encrypting a Windows VM with Azure CLI and PowerShell

The importance of data encryption cannot be overstated, and this is even more crucial with cloud-based workloads. Now, more often than not, the default settings do include some level of encryption ...

Deploying a Linux VM on Azure Using Terraform

As the date for my AZ-305: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification nears (well, I can already take the assessment, as it becomes available six months before the expiration date) I feel I sho...

Onboarding New Customers With Azure Lighthouse

Azure Lighthouse is a name I heard a while back, and while the concept was easy to grasp and even using it once set up wasn’t too complicated, I’ve never actually set one up myself. I recently got ...

Enabling VLANs on Unraid VMs

Just a quick post on something I was struggling with recently, as the whole thing seemed unintuitive. At least compared to Proxmox, where you just drop the VLAN tag during VM/LXC creation and off y...

On the Importance of Cost Management and Alerting in the Cloud

A year ago, I wrote a bit about Azure Arc and its use for non-Azure host management, and I also mentioned that the service was free at the time. And while it still is for the most part, update mana...

Leveraging Azure Blob Storage and Archive Tier for Efficient Long-Term Personal Backups

My on-premises (read, at home) file server recently crossed a total, parity-protected storage of 70 TB, and that’s starting to make me a little uncomfortable, but at the same time I fully understan...

MS Learn Exercise - Send and Receive Message From Azure Service Bus Queue Using .NET

Lately I’ve been going through the MS Learn modules for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam in preparation for the actual exam which I’ll be taking in a month or so,...