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Claude Code & Azure I’m sure you’ve heard about Anthropic’s Claude Code. I’ve been an active user for the past 3 months. It’s a great tool; however, it requires a separate subscription until now. Claude has always been available on AWS and GCP (and the main assumption is that it hasn’t been available on Azure due to Anthropic’s rivalry with OpenAI), but things have now changed—Microsoft announced a partnership with Anthropic and Claude models are available via Azure Foundry. ...

A small intro Although my main stack is far from this now, throughout my professional career I have had to work with the Windows Server stack, and the issue of secure RDP access has always been important. One of my favorite customers with Windows Server stack was a medium-size company in the financial sector, who’ve managed their custom software across multiple Windows Server environments, and their go-to solution for secure RDP access was Azure VPN. With all my love for Azure, their VPN (especially cert-based one, which required a lot of management overhead) was not the most user-friendly solution. ...

DockerHub rate limits DockerHub has a strict rate limit policy, especially for anonymous pulls. for anynomyous users: 100 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. for authenticated users: 200 pulls per 6 hours per IP address. => if your usage exceeds these limits, your requests are denied until the six-hour window elapses. Despite the fact that for authenticated users the rate limit is higher, these limits can easily break the CI/CD pipelines which use DockerHub as a source of base images, especially if runners aren’t ephemeral and use the same IP address for multiple builds. ...