Architecture Repository
Write-ups, projects, and the notes I take chasing certifications.
A working archive of how things are designed and why. Posts are one-off write-ups. Series dig into a larger topic across multiple posts.
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Azure Storage: Accounts, Blobs, Files, and Disks
A practitioner's guide to the Azure Storage platform: account kinds and redundancy, blob types and access tiers, the security and encryption model, Azure Files and File Sync, and managed disks. Written around the decisions that can't be undone after creation.
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Application Hosting on Azure: App Service, Containers and AKS
A practitioner's guide to choosing and running application hosting on Azure. From the App Service versus containers decision, through App Service plans, slots, scaling, networking and backup, to container instances, registries, and the AKS control plane.
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Azure Governance: Subscriptions, Cost, Policy, and Access Control
A practical tour of Azure governance — accounts, tenants, and subscriptions; moving resources and controlling cost; organising resources with groups, tags, and locks; Azure Policy from first principles to custom definitions; and management group hierarchies and access control that scale.
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Microsoft Entra ID: Identity and Access Management on Azure
A ten-part series that builds a complete, practitioner-grade picture of Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) servic…