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From Monolith to Microservices on Azure

From Monolith to Microservices on Azure

How we migrated a legacy monolith to containerized microservices using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with lessons on cost, observability, and dev experience.

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Prateek Arora

Don't Develop Just for Yourself - A Developer's Checklist to Accessibility

Don't Develop Just for Yourself - A Developer's Checklist to Accessibility

We, as developers, tend to develop sites unconsciously for people like ourselves. If we don't actively pay attention, the sites are often accessible only for certain types of people: Sighted mouse-users, who have good fine motor skills and are good at using computers.

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Prateek Arora

Post-Migration Pains: OneDrive

Post-Migration Pains: What We’d Do Differently After Moving to OneDrive

Lessons from unexpected roadblocks and user confusion post OneDrive migration. Here's what we'd change next time.

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Prateek Arora

Azure Observability Mistakes

We Didn’t Plan for Logging — Our Observability Mistakes in Azure

Logging was an afterthought — and it cost us. Here's what we learned about observability and tracing in Azure.

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Prateek Arora

Hardcoding Secrets in Notebooks

Hardcoding Secrets in Notebooks? Lessons from a DataOps Misstep

A cautionary tale on hardcoded credentials in Jupyter notebooks — what went wrong and how we fixed it.

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Prateek Arora