Gandhi – An Autobiography

Gandhi mentioned that he was doing poorly in English during his high school time. Contrary to what he believed, his writing style on this autobiography, his rich choice of words making up sentences like an erudite gentleman. The writings was beautiful, it's like reading a poet with many intricate details. This is the initial reason …

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Reading this book after listening the audio version was a good decision. Multiple times I have stop reading and ponder, and reading it again, some even for days. I originally thought a history book must be a boring book but this book is anything but. Fast forward to about 70,000 years ago starting with our …

Are You Using Many Cloud Providers?

It is really just a matter of time when the cloud VNET/VPC starts to grow really fast and getting more complex to manage the traffic between them. With the great number of VNets/VPCs come with great peering responsibility (pun intended), it doesn't always easy to deploy or manage such many to many peering. Granted there …

Azure VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute Gateway, and GatewaySubnet.

There are multiple gateways in Azure we often heard. VPN Gateway, VNet Gateway, and ExpressRoute Gateway. Based on this Azure documentation, there are actually two types of Gateway known to Azure. The first one is the VPN Gateway. Surprisingly, this is also referred to as VNet Gateway or even Virtual Network Gateway. Its job is …

Azure VPN Gateway Transit for Virtual Network Peering

Communication between VNets can be achieved by creating VNet peering between the two. However, it gets cumbersome when we have a growing number of VNets and have to keep adding mesh connections (any to any) between the VNets. The mesh connection occurs due to the fact that a VNet is not a transitive network where …

Install Azure CLI Extension in Visual Studio Code

Do the following to use coloured and syntax highlighting for Azure CLI in Visual Studio Code. 1. Open Extensions You could either click the Extension icon on the left bar or just use CTRL+SHIFT+X 2. Search for Azure CLI Once the Extension window appears, search for azure cli and you'll see Azure CLI Tools. 3. …

Azure VNet Peering using VNet Gateway

Following the previous Azure VNet Peering post, this post will now another way connecting VNet using Virtual Network Gateway (VNet Gateway), or some will also call it VPN Gateway. VNet Gateway is used when an encrypted connection is required. This is done by (1) creating a gateway subnet during (2) the creation of the VNet …

Azure VNet Peering

Consider this scenario, a company has two Azure VNets and would like to make the two to communicate to each other. Dev and Non-Prod VNets are located in the same region. Microsoft created the VNet Peering for "direct" connection between VNets. The term direct connection means that you don't need a separate gateway instance to …

Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig

Let's Get Real or Let's Not Play by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig teaches the art of selling in a prescriptive way with stories, examples dialogues, how-to plans, and even forms to help you to make the sales. It is a very practical book with many examples on how to qualify a sales opportunity, how …

The Resilience Project by Hugh Van Cuylenburg

The Resilience Project by Hugh Van Cuylenburg gives so much Australian references in attempt to highlight the importance of gratitude, empathy, and mindfulness. While many books on this topic were written in general or US market, this particular book is written so close to the everyday life of an Australian. Words like cricket, footy, tosser, …