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Spectre/Meltdown: An Azure Retrospective

By Hammad Aslam on December 12, 2019

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

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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

By Hammad Aslam on November 18, 2019November 22, 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

By Hammad Aslam on May 3, 2019May 3, 2019

  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

By Hammad Aslam on April 27, 2019April 27, 2019

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

By Hammad Aslam on March 13, 2019April 26, 2019

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

By Hammad Aslam on February 11, 2019

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

By Hammad Aslam on January 29, 2019

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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Set up Linux VMs to use Windows Active Directory.

By Hammad Aslam on January 1, 2019

Are you tired of maintaining local credentials for your linux VMs? Do you have accounts set on your linux machines that the password have not been rotated for like forever… Do you wish maintaining Linux credentials was as easy as Windows Servers? So for this blog post, I am going to show you how you

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AZ-102: My notes about Azure’s transition exam for 70-533

By Hammad Aslam on November 4, 2018

Introduction: Coming from Ignite this year, Microsoft made it clear that it was moving from the old MCP, MCSA and MCSE model for Azure and instead creating a role based certification paths for Azure. Take a look at the image below, it will show you how you need to take two exams to be get

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