Breaking, building

and everything in between.

Appreciating the utility of DNS based load-balancing for Globally available Web Apps

This post is me marvelling at one of the many approaches engineers on the early web took to optimize delivery of web applications on a global scale. I see this as an opportunity to get a deeper understanding of how the web works and explore the in...

Building Serverless File Uploads on Azure the right way

Few months ago I happened to work on a conceptual application that involved processing videos on Azure. One of the problem statements involved having a scalable yet economical method to allow users to upload videos that could be at least few tens ...

Identifying a unique user on Microsoft Identity Platform - OID vs SUB

I happened to spend a decent part of 2021 skimming through Microsoft documentation along with OAuth and associated RFCs to understand the specifics of authorization flows to secure APIs. On one such quest, I was to figure out a good way to identif...

Solving an Enterprise Integration problem with Azure Serverless

This blog is a follow up to my webinar that aired 17th Sept on Pune User Group’s #PUGLive. Recording of the webinar is available and can be viewed at the end of this blog. I have used the follow up weeks to cover a few more interesting aspects of ...