Today, we’ll take a look at a new feature in AKS called Azure Private Link, which allows you to connect to AKS securely and privately over the Microsoft Azure backbone network. In the past, connecting to AKS from an on-premises network or other virtual network required using a public IP address, which posed potential security […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Running LLMs on Kubernetes: Production Deployment Guide
Deploying LLMs on Kubernetes requires careful planning. After deploying 25+ LLM models on Kubernetes, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to running LLMs on Kubernetes in production. Figure 1: Kubernetes LLM Architecture Why Kubernetes for LLMs Kubernetes offers significant advantages for LLM deployment: Scalability: Auto-scale based on demand Resource management: Efficient GPU and […]
Read more →GitOps with a comparison between Flux and ArgoCD and which one is better for use in Azure AKS
GitOps has emerged as a powerful paradigm for managing Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications. Two popular tools for implementing GitOps in Kubernetes are Flux and ArgoCD. Both tools have similar functionalities, but they differ in terms of their architecture, ease of use, and integration with cloud platforms like Azure AKS. In this blog, we will […]
Read more →HL7 v2: The Messaging Standard That Powers Healthcare IT
Executive Summary HL7 v2.x remains the most widely deployed healthcare messaging standard globally, powering 95% of hospital interfaces despite being developed in the 1980s. This deep dive explores why HL7 v2 continues to dominate healthcare IT, how it works at a technical level, and how modern .NET developers can implement robust v2 interfaces for Irish […]
Read more →What is Landing Zone in Azure? How to implement it via Terraform
In Azure, a landing zone is a pre-configured environment that provides a baseline for hosting workloads. It helps organizations establish a secure, scalable, and well-managed environment for their applications and services. A landing zone typically includes a set of Azure resources such as networks, storage accounts, virtual machines, and security controls. Implementing a landing zone […]
Read more →Azure Cosmos DB: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Globally Distributed Databases
Throughout my career architecting distributed systems, few database decisions have proven as consequential as choosing the right globally distributed data platform. Azure Cosmos DB represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of building planet-scale applications—a fully managed NoSQL database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency anywhere in the world. After implementing Cosmos DB across numerous enterprise […]
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