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Internal Working of Elasticsearch: From Log Ingestion to Storage
This blog explores the internal working of Elasticsearch, explaining how logs move from ingestion through the translog and in-memory buffers into Lucene segments. It covers analyzers, inverted indexes, segment merging, and shard replicas, giving SREs and DevOps engineers practical insights for scaling search.
Internal Working of Prometheus: How Metrics Flow from Ingestion to Storage
This blog takes a deep dive into the internal working of Prometheus, exploring how metrics flow from ingestion to storage. It explains the role of the Write-Ahead Log (WAL), the in-memory Head Block, and the immutable on-disk time series database (TSDB) blocks. With diagrams and analogies, it demystifies how Prometheus balances durability, speed, and scalability while powering queries, alerts, and dashboards. A must-read for SREs and DevOps engineers who want to go beyond the basics and truly understand how Prometheus works under the hood.
Understanding MCP (Model Context Protocol) — A Simple Guide from a DevOps Engineer
Discover what MCP (Model Context Protocol) is and how it empowers AI models like ChatGPT to use tools, memory, and context effectively. A simple, human explanation with real DevOps examples.
Case Study: Restricting API Access by IP in Azure APIM
Learn how to restrict access to specific APIs in Azure API Management (APIM) using IP filtering policies—while keeping your APIM gateway public. A real-world case study with step-by-step guidance.
The Big Layoffs: What They Signal About the Future of Work — and How You Can Prepare
Microsoft laid off 9,000+ employees as it doubles down on AI. Here's what it means for DevOps, engineering, and cloud professionals—and how to stay future-proof in an AI-first industry.
Service Principal vs Managed Identity: Which One Should You Use in Azure?
This blog post describes key differences between Service Principal and Managed Identity and when to use what.
Azure Service Bus for InShorts: A Deeper Dive
Pods Stuck in "Terminating" State - K8s
Simplifying Security Compliance with Managed Identity
Horizontal Digital - Hiring - Freshers
Enhancing Azure Governance with Effective Tagging and Policies
Securing Web APIs with Azure AD and Azure API Management
How to Enable Azure AD Authentication for Azure App Service?
Detailed steps to enable Azure Active Directory Authentication for Azure WebApps
Azure Event Grid in Action - How to Use?
How to use Azure Event Grid ?
Securing On-Premises Virtual Machines with Azure Application Proxy
Analyzing Traffic to Azure VMs with Azure NSG Flow Logs
How To Restrict Traffic Between Two Azure Subnets
Secure and Private Connectivity between Azure VM and Azure Private DNS
Azure Sign-in Troubleshooting - Part 1
Azure Container Instances And Azure Container App: Which Service Is Best For Your Containerized Workloads?
Happy New Year 2023
Why Planning is important for Cloud Migrations?
Dynamically Checking Out A Specific Branch Or Tag In AzureDevOps
Application Gateway VS Ingress For Kubernetes
Conditional Access on Azure Active Directory
How to get all Logs from Kubernetes Cluster?
AzureDevOps Services - Total Cost of Ownership
Now Pay-per-Pod for your Kubernetes Application!
How to list Azure RBAC Roles to Secure AKS Clusters
Integrate Coveo with Container World
Spotlight Special: Coveo for Search!
The 4C's of Kubernetes Security
Money Saving tips for AKS Cluster
Checking Kubernetes API Calls using Kubectl
Why you should not miss Teacher's Day Azure Developer League 2021?
Import/Export CI Pipeline from Azure DevOps
How to configure automatic update Of Azure CLI
PowerShell: Creating Custom nuget.config
ProTip: NuGet Local Package Installation
kubectl get resource --short-names
Auto Redeploy Last Successful Release on Failure - AzureDevOps
YAML Deploy Using Azure Pipelines - PipelineAsACode
Setting Approvals Through Azure Pipelines Environment
Configure & Run Self-Hosted Azure DevOps Agent Behind Proxy
YAML Build Pipelines in AzureDevOps - PipelineAsACode
Deploying .net application with GitHub Actions
Post File to Slack Using Python
GKE Sandbox: Harden workload isolation
Microsoft updates its certifications
GCP's killer feature - Live Migration
Azure Lab Services - Auto VM Shutdown
The Innocent Killer on Azure
Azure Proximity Placement Groups
Azure Spot Virtual Machines are here! - "Preview"
AZ-103: Azure Administrator - Preparation Road Map
AZ-203 : Azure Developer Associate - Preparation Road map
Azure SendGrid - Get more for free!
Azure DevOps and SendGrid Integration - Step by Step Guide
AZ-400 : Azure DevOps - Preparation Road map
Add/Update IP Restrictions on Azure WebApp Dynamically with PowerShell
How to estimate parallel jobs in Azure DevOps
How to see log stream of webserver and application logs on Azure WebApp
How to pass environment variables in Azure WebApps
GitHub announces its take on CI/CD challenge - Unveils GitHub Actions with CI/CD
Microsoft Azure Bastion - Secure access to Azure VMs
Send Message to Slack and Mattermost via PowerShell
Azure Resource Locks
Microsoft Plays It's Cards - Raises Licensing Cost
Creating Service Principal Through Azure Portal
Dealing with locked files - Azure WebApps - Deployment
Recover your deleted blobs - Soft Delete - Azure Storage Blobs
