Author: Hammad Aslam
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How to Prepare for a Microsoft Azure Focused Interview?
Introduction As an Azure SME at my current company, I am usually tasked with interviewing new candidates and assessing their Azure Technical skills. When I googled/binged Azure Interview questions, I noticed that there are very few resources for Azure (lots for AWS) and most of them are outdated. As the second largest public Cloud provider…
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Azure Functions: Deploy a Python app through Visual Studio Code
Introduction: Back in August, Microsoft GAed Python Support for Azure functions. Ever since then, I was trying to get a small hands-on tutorial blogged to demo that and how you can use Visual Studio Code to do the full deployment for you. After a quick Google/Bing search, I could tell that there are many demos…
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Spectre/Meltdown: An Azure Retrospective
I recall back in December 2017, I was 5 months onto my new job at ICF Next and just fully taken over a major Azure customer that had a critical web application hosted on Azure Classic. We had started hearing about meltdown and spectre earlier in the week and I also recall reading a Microsoft…
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Azure Bastion: Setup and Use cases
Summary As of November 4th, Azure Bastion went GA but keep in mind that as of right now, it is only available in 6 Azure regions listed below (the link to get the latest info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/bastion-create-host-portal) West US East US West Europe South Central US Australia East Japan East What does that mean, it means…
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Quick Overview of Microsoft Ignite 2019
Summary This year, I again had the great opportunity to go to Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. I was not sure I was going to make it due to this horrible flu me and my wife caught a week before but as soon as I told my body that I might miss a Microsoft conference,…
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A Preparation Guide for AZ-300
Today, I took the AZ-300 (Microsoft Azure Technologies) and passed with the best score so far in any certification exam I took. As many of you know, AZ-300 is the first exam of the two exams required to get the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert role. After taking the exam, it seems like the…
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Azure Disks vs AWS EBS
Introduction Talking to different Customers and even Architects in the Cloud Computing world, I noticed that Azure disks seem to have a bad reputation compared to AWS’s EBS volumes. There is a lot of chatter of how users tend to experience lots of latency when using Azure disks and experience performance issues that affect their…
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WordPress High Availability
Introduction: High Availability within WordPress is a complex issue. Unlike AEM and SiteCore, WordPress does not have an authoring node in its default design. So the challenge is whenever an author goes to /wp-admin and authors content, how do we make sure all nodes are in sync ? In the past and in some current environments,…
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Azure DevOps Pipeline
So at Ignite last year, there was a lot of talk about Azure DevOps pipeline. It was my first time at Ignite so I was very busy trying to win a Surface table at Mechanics live or taking pictures with my Microsoft heros and did not get a chance to dive deeper into the Azure…
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Guest Lecture at UOIT
Hello all, I had the great opportunity of being invited to give a guest lecture at UOIT on DevOps and Cloud Computing. It was an amazing experience going back to University after 5 years and giving a lecture to the 4th year Software Engineering class, just a few years ago I was sitting in their…
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