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Building a Practical Azure Landing Zone for a Small Organization — My Hands-On Journey
Over the past few weeks, I went through the full process of designing and implementing a lean but enterprise-grade Azure Landing Zone for a small organization. The goal wasn’t to build a complex cloud platform — it was to create something secure, governed, and scalable, while remaining simple enough to operate with a small team.…
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Mapping a Custom Domain to WordPress on Azure Container Apps (With Managed TLS & Zero Downtime)
I recently migrated my WordPress site to Azure Container Apps (ACA) and mapped my custom domain — shahzadblog.com — with a free…
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Tag-Based Production Releases with Azure DevOps: Lessons from the Trenches
Most deployment pipelines fail in the same way:production gets deployed too easily. A merge to main triggers a deploy.A hotfix goes live…
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Azure DevOps Branching Strategy: When (and When Not) to Maintain Multiple Release Versions
Updated guidance for solo founders, small teams, and SaaS builders In 2021, I published a beginner-friendly guide on Azure DevOps branching and…
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Azure DevOps Branching and Release Strategy (Beginner to Production-Ready Guide)
Last updated: 2025 If you’re new to Azure DevOps Git branching and confused by GitFlow diagrams, release branches, and pull requests—this guide…
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