After two decades of building enterprise applications, I’ve witnessed the evolution from monolithic deployments to microservices, and now to serverless architectures. Azure Functions represents a fundamental shift in how we think about compute—moving from “always-on” infrastructure to truly event-driven, pay-per-execution models. This transformation isn’t just about cost savings; it’s about building systems that scale automatically […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise Container Orchestration
After two decades of deploying and managing containerized workloads across enterprises, I’ve watched Kubernetes evolve from a complex orchestration tool into the de facto standard for container management. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) represents Microsoft’s fully managed Kubernetes offering, and having architected dozens of AKS deployments, I can share the patterns and practices that separate successful […]
Read more →Mastering DevSecOps: Key Metrics and Strategies for Success
Introduction The rise of DevSecOps has transformed the way organizations develop, deploy, and secure their applications. By integrating security practices into the DevOps process, DevSecOps aims to ensure that applications are secure, compliant, and robust from the start. In this blog post, we will discuss the key metrics for measuring the success of your DevSecOps […]
Read more →Azure DevOps Pipelines: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Enterprise CI/CD
After two decades of building and operating CI/CD systems across enterprises of every scale, I’ve watched Azure DevOps evolve from Team Foundation Server into one of the most comprehensive DevOps platforms available. The platform’s strength lies not just in its individual components, but in how seamlessly they integrate to create end-to-end delivery pipelines that scale […]
Read more →Google Gemini API: Building Multimodal AI Applications with 2M Token Context
Introduction: Google’s Gemini API represents a significant leap in multimodal AI capabilities. Launched in December 2023, Gemini models are natively multimodal, trained from the ground up to understand and generate text, images, audio, and video. With context windows up to 2 million tokens and native Google Search grounding, Gemini offers unique capabilities for building sophisticated […]
Read more →Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Azure: Achieving Higher Reliability with AKS and Essential Tools
In the fast-paced world of technology, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses to thrive. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has emerged as a discipline that combines software engineering and systems administration to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. In the Azure cloud environment, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) plays a pivotal role in […]
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