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12/24/2025
23 minute read

If you’re building on Azure, sooner or later you’ll work with an Azure Storage Account. It’s a foundational service behind many real-world systems, and Blob Storage is one of its most common use cases for handling unstructured data at scale. Replication Strategies, Lifecycle Management, and Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens ate the three features, despite how powerful they are, often overlooked or underused. Even though getting them right can have a big impact on cost, security, and overall system design. 😕

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02/23/2025
7 minute read

As a developer if you are using Azure for cloud development, one of the first things to do is to authenticate your machine against Azure environment so that Azure knows commands issued against it are from a trusted machine! This is important to also eliminate the need of using connection strings as far as possible! Let's see how easy it is and how it could be done!

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12/27/2024
4 minute read

How do you ensure that duplicate keys are prevented on a column that allows NULL values?

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12/27/2024
3 minute read

A colleague of mine had a requirement in which he was interested to put the configuration settings of an ASP.NET Core application inside a SQL Server table and read them at startup of the application with a mechanism similar to what we already have for JSON files; also he wanted to have the ability that these variable being overridden or override other settings if applicable. In this article, I am going to describe how that could be achievable and how to implement such feature.

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All posts with Tag Azure

Three overlooked features of Azure Storage Account

Ditch Connection Strings, Embrace Secure Azure Access

Ensure Uniqueness of Nullable Columns

Custom Configuration Providers in ASP.NET Core