The Big Data Blog

The Design Process Before touching Azure, I designed the full architecture using draw.io, mapping out how every component would connect — from the store terminals all the way through the firewall, load balancer, application servers and database. The Challenges Nothing ever goes perfectly! The Azure free trial had regional restrictions that blocked certain VM sizes in UK South, so I had to adapt and deploy across Central US and Australia East instead. It was a good reminder th

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