Azure Front Door: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to Global Load Balancing and CDN

Executive Summary In an era where milliseconds of latency can translate to millions in lost revenue, global load balancing has evolved from a nice-to-have to a critical infrastructure component. Azure Front Door represents Microsoft’s answer to the challenge of delivering applications globally with enterprise-grade security and performance. Configuration Example { “name”: “my-frontdoor”, “properties”: { “enabledState”: […]

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.NET 9: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to the Modern .NET Ecosystem

After two decades of building enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack, I’ve witnessed every major evolution of .NET—from the original Framework through the tumultuous transition to Core, and now to the unified platform we have today. .NET 9, released in November 2024, represents the maturation of a platform that has finally delivered on the promise […]

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