18 August 2026
Kicking off CKA prep after five years running AKS in production — why hands-on install/config is the real gap to close, and the plan to build a two-node Kubernetes lab on Azure VMs inside a Whizlabs sandbox.
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Turning AZ-900 study notes into a short, scannable cheat sheet built around mental models and quick comparisons (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, CapEx vs OpEx, Azure Policy vs Blueprints, storage redundancy) rather than a giant study dump.
27 June 2026
Passing the Whizlabs AZ-305 final practice test at 76.36% on the first attempt — solid validation across identity, governance, data solutions, and resilient architecture before the real exam.
22 June 2026
A condensed AZ-104 cheat sheet from exam notes: NSG vs ASG, storage RBAC vs SAS gotchas, VNet move limitations, Recovery Services Vault restrictions, and other exam traps around networking and resource moves.
15 June 2026
An AZ-204 cheat sheet covering Durable Functions patterns, Azure Functions tiers, service tiers/limits, storage tiers, load balancer choices, and API Management policies — still ~80% relevant despite AZ-204's planned retirement in favor of AI-200.
9 June 2026
14k impressions and 88 reactions on a post about the AZ-400 lab's unclear instructions — including one comment from someone who failed the exam for the same reason, which is exactly why the AZ-400 cheat sheet followed the next day.
3 June 2026
The full story behind the AZ-400 lab quick-start tip: confused by a blank-desktop VM with no visible browser, until the taskbar's quick-start Edge icon revealed the way into the Azure Portal and Azure DevOps.
23 May 2026
80% on the Whizlabs AZ-400 final mock, first attempt, 5 days before the real exam — solid improvement from earlier practice tests after focusing hard on weak areas.
10 April 2026
The first working milestone: a self-hosted sentiment-analysis service running in the Whizlabs AKS sandbox — Terraform + PowerShell automation, a multi-container Ollama/LLM-adapter/Flask architecture, and ConfigMap-driven prompts with proper health probes.
5 April 2026
Kicking off a self-hosted LLM sentiment-analysis platform on AKS: a Flask API, an LLM adapter layer, Ollama (phi3:mini) in-cluster, Terraform for IaC, and Traefik ingress via Helm — the plan before any of it exists yet.
21 December 2025
Realizing that everyday exam-prep habits already were prompt engineering: a four-step Azure exam strategy built around priming, format/quantity constraints, and length limits to get sharper, more useful answers out of AI chat tools.