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Contact Tracing Apps – A holistic perspective

May 8, 2020May 31, 2020 by Thurupathan

Contact tracing apps are one of the most argued topics. Google & Apple announced a joint partnership in enabling contact tracing; it is a two-step approach – first it will be released as an interoperability API, later as a platform level functionality. At the same time, countries like China and Singapore have implemented contact tracing apps including location-based services. What are the limitations and the balance between effectivness and privacy in implementing such applications…

Azure Lighthouse – A Cloud Native Managed Services Model for Service Providers

March 6, 2020March 6, 2020 by Thurupathan

Recently Azure announced this service called ‘Azure Lighthouse’. It allows managed service providers and customers to manage the tenant access and the delegation from a single point of interface in the Azure Portal itself. With some marketing garnish, I would like to call it as Cloud Native Managed Service Model. Let me take you through the fundamentals of Azure Lighthouse.

Enterprise data life cycle management using Azure Storage

August 8, 2019September 6, 2019 by Thurupathan

Storage is one critical component in the Enterprise world. Managing data and its life cycle is a crucial element in many aspects, such as optimizing storage usage, managing cost, adhering to the compliance & archival requirements, security and etc. Primarily data is stored in database systems (relational and non-relational sources) and as files (includes data … Continue reading Enterprise data life cycle management using Azure Storage

Deep Dive into Azure Managed Identities – Behind the scenes

July 20, 2019September 1, 2019 by Thurupathan

Introduction Sometime back when it was in the preview, I posted an article on Azure Managed Service Identity (MSI) and how we can use it, to eliminate storing credentials in the code, whilst avoiding the bootstrap problem. Read the link for more details. This post is about Managed Identity, in short, Managed Identity is the new … Continue reading Deep Dive into Azure Managed Identities – Behind the scenes

Democratizing Enterprise Cloud in Azure

March 24, 2019March 28, 2019 by Thurupathan

Cloud is the new normal; almost, all the enterprises have been going through or at least planning their cloud adoption. Gone are the days, enterprise IT deals with big chunks of metal. Though the cloud adoption is at its peak, I rarely see democratized cloud adoption in enterprises. Cloud is often used as a centralized IT … Continue reading Democratizing Enterprise Cloud in Azure

Optimizing Web delivery of the modern front end Applications

November 27, 2018December 22, 2018 by Thurupathan

Modern web frameworks delivered through bundled JavaScript. The increasing popularity of SPA requires complimenting delivery approach. This post explains the optimum delivery of such front end applications with no server dependencies via Azure DevOps and Blob storage static websites.

Service mesh in Service Fabric

October 18, 2018October 24, 2018 by Thurupathan

Introduction Microservices is here to stay and we can witness the increasing popularity and the maturing technology stack which facilitate microservices. In this great article which explains about the maturity of microservices and the 2.0 stack, it mentions three key aspects. Service mesh Matured orchestrators RPC based service protocols. This post focuses on the communication infrastructure in Service … Continue reading Service mesh in Service Fabric