/ Field Notes — series

Azure Architecture

Twenty short films with written notes on how Azure behaves under an enterprise workload: the network path, identity and private access, storage and recovery, capacity and cost.

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20
Written by
Neeraj Kumar
Published
1 of 20
Running
October 6, 2026 — October 6, 2026
An illustrative Azure VM estate: a user's request travels to one selected application VM and on to a SQL Server VM in the same virtual network, under the line 'Before buying a bigger VM, check the network path.'
October 6, 20263 min read

No. 01 Before a bigger VM, check the network path

When an application tier on Azure VMs feels slow talking to its database, the reflex is a larger VM. Accelerated Networking changes the path packets take, and checking it costs nothing but a few minutes.

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