The last two weeks were like a marathon. I was part of and delivered content to six conferences in the last 14 days. Three of them were in-person, so I had the opportunity to enjoy the social interaction between humans in IT (smile). …

The last article was about shared responsibility between the three parties that are involved Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS) and the customer. In today’s post, we tackle Azure Kubernetes Services and where the workload would need to run. Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) runs all the payloads where card data are decrypted…

In the previous article, we talked about the core concepts of PCI-DSS and the impact of storing, processing and transmitting credit card data. This article focus on the shared responsibility concept and the importance of having all the parties at the same table. I promise that starting with the next…

This is the first article from a series of them about how to build a PCI-DSS-compliant application on top of Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. Together we cover the journey of building a PCI-DSS compliant application. …

Time flies fast when you enjoy what you do and the people around you. Here I am, in Munich airport, returning home from Microsoft Ignite. In this post, I would like to share the highlights and a summary of this great conference. This week I had the fantastic opportunity to…

The learning journey for Microsoft technologies was consolidated in one story — Microsoft Learn. The consolidation of all learning resources, certification paths, events and community in one place provides a central location from where we can learn and develop our skills. Four main pillars are provided by Microsoft Learn: Discover…

Container-based solutions were one of the best ways to reduce running costs and improve the quality attributes of a product five years ago. Nowadays, IT departments are complaining about the running cost of containers and pushing serverless as the next step to reduce the running costs. It is important to…

Do you remember what a LOB (Line of Business) application used to look like 15 years ago? One or multiple virtual machines, .NET 3.5, web and desktop applications and a SQL Server database. Cloud was one of the catalysts that helped large organisations to change how a LOB application is…

In today’s post, we talk about the flavours of Redis Cache for Microsoft Azure and how to decrypt undocumented errors that we can receive from Redis during the provisioning phase. When using Microsoft Azure, we have two main options for using Redis Cache: - Azure Cache for Redis: a SaaS…