Nicola Delfino is a cloud technologist at Microsoft based in Italy, writing hands-on articles about Microsoft Azure, networking, Azure OpenAI, API Management, and PowerShell with a practical, lab-driven approach.
10 articles from this blog
An architect details building Proximity, an open-source tool for visualizing walking-distance isochrones from public transport stops, as a sandbox for cloud architecture.
Explains the unexpected routing behavior of Azure Private Endpoints in hub-and-spoke networks and how to enforce centralized firewall control.
A guide to quickly deploy a test web server (IIS or Nginx) on a Windows or Linux Azure VM using Azure Portal's Run Command.
Technical guide on integrating Azure OpenAI with Azure API Management for better control, security, and traffic management.
A PowerShell script demonstrating how to call the Azure OpenAI chat completions API, including authentication and request formatting.
A technical guide on intercepting and monitoring the 'Run as Administrator' event on Windows using Event ID 4688 and XPath queries.
A tutorial on installing and running the Noisy traffic generation tool on Azure VMs using scripts for Windows and Linux.
Analyzing network latency between Azure Availability Zones and the impact of different network configurations, including NVAs, on performance.
Explores network topology designs for Azure Batch Transcription Service to ensure data privacy, sovereignty, and performance.
A guide to moving Azure VMs between availability zones, covering supported portal operations and unsupported scenarios requiring manual steps.
