Exploring Network Security Perimeters in Azure

If you’ve been running Network Virtual Appliances in Azure for a while, this is one you’ll want to pay attention to. Microsoft are in the process of rolling out the Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) to existing VM size families, with the deployment scheduled to begin on 1st August 2026. For most workloads, this is a non-event and you’ll get some performance benefits for ...

Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar. Thanks, as always, to the event organisers who put this event together. It’s always great to see such amazing and varied content each December throughout the tech community.

This year, I’ve picked a classic solution that I still turn to time and time again. The scenario is simple: you have...

Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service. This is a global (non-regional) load balancing service offering CDN and WAF services as a front-end to web applications and services. As this is a global service, it does not follow traditional high availability or disaster recovery architecture designs. H...