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Real-time analytics with Azure Service Bus and Microsoft Fabric.

Azure Service Bus is Microsoft’s fully managed enterprise message broker for connecting applications and services with reliable asynchronous messaging. It supports queues, topics, and subscriptions so...

Azure Speech to Text: Turning Voice into Action.

Azure Speech to Text is a service in Azure Speech that converts spoken audio into written text. It supports real-time transcription, fast transcription for quick synchronous results, batch...

Why You Should Disable Key-Based Metadata Write Access in Azure Cosmos DB

Securing Azure Cosmos DB is not only about protecting data inside containers. It is also about controlling who can change the account’s metadata, such as databases, containers, throughput, and...

Azure Integrated HSM: Hardware-Backed Cryptography Built into Azure Infrastructure

Azure Integrated Hardware Security Module, (HSM), is Microsoft’s built-in hardware security capability for cryptographic operations on supported virtual machines. It combines a hardware security...

Understanding Azure Private Endpoint, NSG Behavior, and Network Polic

What is Private Endpoint? A private endpoint is a network interface in a subnet that connects privately to the Azure service powered by Private Link by using a private IP of that virtual network. This...

Migrating SQL Server on VM to Azure SQL Database: My Hands-On Experience with Azure DMS.

Scenario. After spending the weekend wrestling with a real-world SQL Server migration, I finally got my on-premises database from a VM to Azure SQL Database using Azure Database Migration Service...

Connecting Existing Kubernetes Clusters to Azure Arc – What Actually Matters

If you’ve been working with Kubernetes for a while, you’ve probably ended up with clusters everywhere — on-prem, AWS, maybe even edge locations. The real problem isn’t running Kubernetes anymore.It’s...