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Discover my recent professional and personal milestones, from speaking engagements at Azure Fest and the European Collaboration Summit to the continued growth of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast. I also share updates on my home studio equipment upgrades and celebrate reaching significant strength training goals in the gym.

I explore the newly announced F5 NGINX service on Azure, explaining why this Platform-as-a-Service offering is preferable to traditional compute-based deployments. By walking through the straightforward provisioning process and initial configuration steps, I demonstrate how to get started with this tool for load balancing and web serving.

Drawing on my decade of experience with Microsoft Azure, I reveal the actual monthly costs of a personal solution that tracks AKA.MS URLs from Twitter, which averages around €26 despite my efforts to minimize expenses. I break down how the Azure SQL database accounts for over 80% of the bill after an upgrade was necessary to handle growing data volumes, emphasizing why relying on initial estimates rather than active monitoring leads to unexpected spending.

In this post, I explore how fusion teams bridge the gap between professional developers and citizen developers when working with Microsoft Azure and the Power Platform. I argue that while developers possess valuable coding skills, their most impactful role in these hybrid teams is often limited to architecting custom APIs via Azure API Management and handling deployment and scalability concerns.

I explore how the Azure Well-Architected Framework guides modern identity management, highlighting the critical shift from fragmented on-premises directories to a unified Azure AD tenant. By examining the identity checklist and best practices, I demonstrate why centralizing identities into a single enterprise directory remains a fundamental pillar for effective cloud architecture.