Category: Blog
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K8s and using AKS
When deciding on breaking down monolithic applications for a micro-services approach, take good inventory of your technical depth of your team. Kubernetes will unlock an entire universe of possibilities with many plugins, repos, and products to choose from you might be asking yourself where do I begin. When deciding AKS/EKS/GKE determine on how much do…
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Defender for Cloud (Cloud Security in Azure)
Defender for Cloud was a rebranding of Azure Security Center and is the premier offering from Microsoft Azure as a control plane for security and visibility in Azure. While this is a small view of the dashboard you can see the experience has changed in Azure, AWS and GCP as of recently you can now…
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Microsoft Entra (CIEM/Verified ID)
Microsoft has made some bold acquisitions and recently launched Microsoft Entra with a few new offerings in Azure. Notably, the acquisition of CloudKnox has been integrated with Permissions Management if you recall permissions in IAM can really make or break access that can be overlooked by those who don’t understand permissions. But what happens when…
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Azure Data Factory Moving Data into CosmosDB
Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s Service for transferring data but also building (Extract, Load, Transform) of Data or what is also known as Extract, Transform, Load. However, this is one way of getting data into your CosmosDB DB and respective containers for this post, I’ll deploy two items Azure Cosmos DB Account (SQL Core API)…
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Azure CosmosDB DP-420 Prep
What is Azure CosmosDB? It’s a NoSQL Database offering that offers scale massively across practically unlimited partitions. How does this intersect in the data domain? Likely after you’ve complete DP-900 you’d want to scratch the surface of understanding more how data interacts in the cloud and perhaps use cases that your organization is evaluating. CosmosDB…
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GCP A first-look
Google Cloud has come a far Google operates on a model that is a little different from Microsoft Azure instead of what we know of as “tenant” or “subscription” is called “Projects” in GCP. These Projects think of as your tenant traditionally in Azure (Isolated) to the resources that fall under the project. As you…
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Withings Application
Scope It’s been a while since I’ve wrote my last post and figured I’d document my experience building an application to communicate with the Withings API. My idea is a simple concept, authorize into the Withings API and take the data populated from various metrics in JSON format and sent a POST request into FitnessPal…
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Q4 Goals, Reflections on Q3 and Strategies
I’ve had drafts ready to post with some in-depth content but have been troubleshooting some open source to provide a detailed instruction. Apologies moving forward my goal for Q4 which for clarity Q4 starts for me in August in terms of planning and ends mid December. My sister told me she has only heard me…
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Exploring Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal
On the pursuit of MS-500 I’ve been exploring resources a little further in depth such as Compliance Manager a part of M365 E3/E5 Services. Links used for this compliance.microsoft.com (you’ll login to the “Global Admin”) think of this as your GRC aide in assessments. Microsoft recently announced changes to the formerly known Microsoft Compliance Center…
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10 Books of 2021 and 2022 Reads
While this definitely late, *sigh* I’m planning on being more active in this regard on posting to get a little more out there and help others. The way this is organized is for each book I’ve read I’ll provide a brief statement on the story and have the link with the books information. *DISCLAIMER* The…