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This blog post explores Azure networking, focusing on Azure NAT Gateway and the considerations encountered along the way. In a recent project, it became necessary to integrate an application with an External API. This integration involved whitelisting the source API in the firewall to effectively restrict network access. In the

This is a story about how the .NET Aspire influenced to my preferred technology stack when building native cloud applications to Azure Cloud. I have been working with Azure Cloud for almost 10 years, focusing on PaaS services. This story focuses on developing distributed applications in the Azure PaaS platform.

We started to build a service totality for a specific domain area with a small team a while ago. The foundation of the solution was .NET Aspire and Azure Container Apps Environment. We saw the potential of this technology combination already soon. This then raised questions about how to scale

This post is related to the first Home Assistant post published earlier. I recommend you start reading the first part before this. This blog post covers, how to use Azure Data Explorer to visualize the event data provided by the Home Assistant.  Querying the Azure Data Explorer data A query

I have been using and testing Home Assistant as a center of home automation for a while now. Currently, I have integrated some motion sensors, temperature sensors, and lights into my home automation hub. I'm in the early phase now with Home Assistant and willing to learn and

I discussed with a colleague before the summer holiday about how to schedule background processes in Azure. There are a lot of options available for many use cases. This blog post introduces some Azure services that can be used to execute scheduled background processes. A scheduled background process refers to

I gathered this blog post information about Azure Cloud sustainability and how you can estimate the carbon emissions associated with your Azure services usage. About carbon dioxide CO2 emissions in general Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas that heavily influences global warming and climate change. Burning fossil fuels and

I recently worked in a project where event-driven architecture was used to distribute different events to multiple consumers. During the project, we spend some time thinking about how to document events easily and how to create a centralized repository for event schemas. I share some thoughts about event catalog in

Azure Platform Governance is a strategic enabler that determines guidelines, processes, and technologies on how to build a secure Azure environment according to best practices and organization requirements. Azure Platform Governance document gathers all these requirements into a single document. Azure Platform Governance ensures that all services developed by multiple