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Build a Simple GPU-Enabled Kubernetes Cluster on Azure N-Series VMs

Azure / By / Published / Updated 10/14/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Audience: Platform engineers, ML engineers, and developers who need a small, understandable GPU development cluster without the abstraction of a managed Kubernetes service. Reference topology: Role Azure VM size Operating system Purpose Control plane Standard_D8s_v6 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS API server, scheduler, controllers, etcd GPU worker Standard_NC24ads_A100_v4 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS CUDA-enabled development workloads Software baseline: Kubernetes […]

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Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/02/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In large scale AI clusters storage is responsible for delivering training data fast enough to keep accelerators busy and completing checkpoint saves and recoveries quickly enough to avoid costly stalls. MLPerf Storage is an industry-standard benchmark developed by MLCommons that reproduces the I/O patterns of different stages of AI pipelines covering training, checkpointing, context cache

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Outgrowing SQL Server Express? Upgrade to Azure SQL Database Free Tier in 3 Steps

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 08/19/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

If you’ve been building local prototypes, internal tools, web backends, or lightweight services on SQL Server Express, you know the routine: it’s free, familiar, and gets the job done – until you hit hardware limits or spend weekends manual backup scripts and handling OS patches. Learn how to upgrade from SQL Server Express to Azure

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Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! Operating at Azure scale means managing change across multiple interconnected systems. As applications, services, and dependencies evolve, resilience becomes a foundational design principle rather than an afterthought. In this Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 session, Bhavana Konchada, Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and lead architect of the Resilience Control Platform, takes us behind

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Container Network Insights Agent (CNIA): Your AI Teammate for AKS Networking Incidents

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you run AKS in production, you already know the script. A pod cannot reach an external service, every dashboard says the cluster is healthy, and somebody is SSHing into a node with five browser tabs open trying to piece the story together.  This session from the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026 tackles

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Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are in good company. In session this session of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya Tadikonda

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Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks  If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone. In session MAIS23 of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya, Aditya, and Chaya from the Azure Resiliency product team walked us through the new Resiliency

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Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you have ever spent a long afternoon untangling overlapping CIDR ranges, chasing down a broken VNet peering, or trying to remember which UDR points to which firewall, this MAIS 2026 session is going to feel uncomfortably familiar. Jon Ormond (Principal PM, Azure Networking) brought along Jay Li and Jeff Lovett from the

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Troubleshooting SQL Authentication Failures on Azure SQL Database Geo-Secondary Replicas

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/30/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Scenario Background During a recent investigation, a customer reported that SQL Authentication was failing when connecting to an Azure SQL Database geo-secondary replica. The customer confirmed the following: SQL Authentication worked successfully against the primary replica. The geo-secondary database was healthy and synchronized. The replicated database user existed in the secondary database. Microsoft Entra authentication

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Lessons Learned #550: From a Support Case to Reusable Knowledge

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 07/29/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

Reaching Lessons Learned #550 is an important milestone for me. However, the value of this series is not only the number of articles published. Each article started with a technical question, an unexpected behavior, a support investigation, or a scenario that required additional testing and analysis. Some cases resulted in a configuration change. Others required

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