Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year's Festive Tech Calendar. Thanks, as always, to the event organisers who put this event together. It's always great to see such amazing and varied content each December throughout the tech community. This year, I've picked a classic solution that I still turn to time and time again. … Continue reading Secure private access to your internal apps without a VPN
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Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door
Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service. This is a global (non-regional) load balancing service offering CDN and WAF services as a front-end to web applications and services. As this is a global service, it does not follow traditional high availability or disaster … Continue reading Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door
Migrating to Azure? Decide carefully when choosing your firewall
So, you've decided to move to the cloud and you have migrated your workloads over to Azure but what decision did you make about the firewall? You've probably got a long standing preferred firewall vendor that you've been using for your NGFW on premises. It works well and you trust it, right? Of course, the … Continue reading Migrating to Azure? Decide carefully when choosing your firewall
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