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Azure itself is a set of cloud services. It's a one-stop shop for those services and managing them, backed by a major industry name. Get started with Azure accounts In order to use Azure services, you'll need an Azure account in order to buy credits and set ...

Describe Azure virtual machines These are just virtual machines hosted remotely on Azure services. Azure provides preconfigured VM images so you can spin up a VM in minutes and hit the ground running. One of the draws of having VMs in Azure is that you can h...

Each time you want to spin up a type of storage in Azure, it's bundled under a storage account. Think of it like a namespace in C#. Storage accounts have different types and redundancy options. You can choose from: Blob storage (files & unstructured data) ...

Describe Azure directory services Entra ID is a directory service that enables users to sign in and access Azure cloud apps & services and maintain an on-premise Active Directory deployment. Entra compliments Active Directory. AD doesn't monitor sign-in atte...

Microsoft offers a "movement guide" for both porting existing to and starting brand new systems in Azure. There are 8 methodologies in their guide. Each has its own section in the module. Strategy This is a weird methodology because you can just summarize it...

The WAF is a set of guidelines and recommendations from Microsoft for building a good cloud product from their services on Azure. This section is actually very short vs everything else while the documentation is pretty long in comparison: https://learn.microso...

Governance: the general process of establishing rules and policies and subsequently enforcing them Individuals and startups can get away with having average or even poor governance, but as a business/service grows, it needs to be controlled. A good governance...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-run-app/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/tutorials/file-based-programs It only took 10 years but Microsoft did what I had always wanted them to do and come up with a way to ...

https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branches-a-one-liner-from-the-cias-leaked-dev-docs.html  

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_1179773.html These aren't really "tricks" for the most part but nice mnemonics for when you have the associated thought. The more verbose/intimate ones are nice to have written down, though, like the git bisect one. Copy...