Every seamless app experience has a story behind it. Ciprian, a Software Engineer in the Azure Core Resiliency team in Romania, helps design and implement solutions that keep Azure services resilient and reliable for millions worldwide. It’s about building trust at scale - making sure that when you open an app or website, it just works. #MicrosoftCareersEMEA #MicrosoftLife #MSFTAdvocate

Every seamless app experience has a story behind it. Ciprian, a Software Engineer in the Azure Core Resiliency team in Romania, helps design and implement solutions that keep Azure services resilient and reliable for millions worldwide. It’s about building trust at scale - making sure that when you open an app or website, it just works. #MicrosoftCareersEMEA #MicrosoftLife #MSFTAdvocate

Every seamless app experience has a story behind it. Ciprian, a Software Engineer in the Azure Core Resiliency team in Romania, helps design and implement solutions that keep Azure services resilient and reliable for millions worldwide. It’s about building trust at scale - making sure that when you open an app or website, it just works. #MicrosoftCareersEMEA #MicrosoftLife #MSFTAdvocate

We migrated a live production platform from azure app services to aks Not because kubernetes is trendy but because app services became a scaling risk The hard part wasn’t deployment it was migrating without breaking prod Full production case study in comments

🎉 Starting the new year by launching something close to my heart. I’m excited to share Contextory v0.1.0 for macOS — a local-first, privacy-first work memory, built by UN8 Tech Pty Ltd 🇦🇺 UN8 Tech Over the past months, I kept coming back to one problem: "We write notes everywhere, switch between apps all day — and later forget what we did, where we did it, and why." Contextory is my attempt to solve that — without sending your data to the cloud. What Contextory does: ✅ Tracks app activity and builds a daily timeline ✅ Lets you capture quick notes with context ✅ Shows a clear overview of your workday ✅ Supports optional Local AI (Ollama) + semantic memory (RAG) 🔒 Runs fully on your Mac — your data stays with you This is an early version (v0.1.0), but it’s already usable and evolving fast. 👉 Learn more / download: https://lnkd.in/gGW9eQvx 💻 macOS available now — Windows support coming soon I’m building this in public, and I’d genuinely love feedback from: • people who value privacy • macOS users • anyone who uses tools like Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, or time trackers Here’s to building thoughtful, privacy-first products in 2026 🚀 #BuildInPublic #ProductLaunch #LocalAI #PrivacyFirst #macOS #Productivity #Startups

DAY 18 — Implementing Modern App Authentication with Amazon Cognito Today’s challenge focused on solving one of the most common problems in modern app development: securely managing user authentication without building everything from scratch. Many teams need user sign-up, sign-in, password recovery, and the ability to authenticate users through social identity providers like Google and Facebook. For organizations that work with enterprise clients, SAML 2.0 support becomes equally important. To address this, I implemented Amazon Cognito using a hands-on workflow inside the AWS Console. Cognito provides a fully managed service for user authentication and access control, scaling automatically from a handful of users to millions. What stood out today is how quickly I was able to configure a full authentication layer that integrates directly with web and mobile applications, supports OAuth2 flows, offers a customizable hosted UI, and manages tokens without additional infrastructure. During the setup, I created a new User Pool, configured email-based sign-up, added an app client for the application, and tested the hosted sign-in experience end-to-end. What would normally take days of backend engineering was completed in minutes, reinforcing why Cognito remains a strong option for authentication in serverless and mobile-first architectures. Another day of deepening practical cloud skills completed. On to Day 19 tomorrow. #AWS #AmazonCognito #CloudEngineering #Serverless #AppDevelopment #IdentityManagement #OAuth2 #SAML #MobileDevelopment #CloudSecurity #LearnInPublic #CloudComputing #Developers

Something I don’t see talked about enough: where your app actually lives. You can write clean code, optimize queries, do all the right things… and still have a slow app because your users are far from your servers. If your users are in Europe and your backend is in the US, every request is already late before your code even runs. Nothing fancy going on, it’s just distance. Moving your app or database closer to users usually gives you: Faster responses without touching any code Fewer random “why is this slow?” questions Better UX, especially for real-time or fintech stuff It’s one of those improvements that feels boring but pays off immediately. People love blaming frameworks or databases, but a lot of the time the issue is simply latency you introduced by location. Good systems aren’t just well-written, they’re well-placed. #tech #latency #servers

Learn how to implement cross-platform in-app purchasing in .NET MAUI by wrapping platform billing systems—Google Play Billing, Apple’s StoreKit, and the Microsoft Store—behind a shared API so you can manage purchases and subscriptions from a single codebase #dotnet #dotnetmaui #MobileDev https://hubs.ly/Q03X-nCV0

📱 An important shift in Android’s open-source release strategy Google has announced that it will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) twice per year, moving away from its earlier practice of releasing source code with every quarterly Android update. This change reflects a more streamlined approach to platform development while continuing to support the open-source ecosystem that powers Android at global scale. A noteworthy update for developers, OEMs, and the broader open-source community shaping the future of mobile innovation 🚀 #Google #Android #AOSP #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #MobileTechnology #PlatformEngineering #TechUpdates #DeveloperCommunity #UKTech #IrelandTech #BusinessNews #CloudComputing #DevOps #AzureCloud #DigitalTransformation #TechInnovation #CloudSolutions #DevOpsCulture #AzureDevOps #TechLeadership #InfrastructureAsCode #Automation #AzurePipelines #CloudSecurity #DevOpsBestPractices #TechTrends #AgileDevOps #AzureSolutions #ContinuousDelivery #CloudDevelopment #ITLeadership #USA #USATrending #AmericanCreators #LinkedInTech #LinkedInNews

Building My Own Password Manager App TheLockedBox: Final Milestone GitHub link to download the application: https://lnkd.in/dx5G6CrQ With the completion of the latest development phase, TheLockedBox now supports fully automated, secure cloud synchronization via Google Drive. This update marks the final major architectural addition to the project, transitioning the app from a local-only utility to a robust, cloud-integrated tool. This phase focused on the implementation of a scalable Backup Provider architecture, allowing for seamless integration of external storage services while maintaining the app's core security principles. Key technical implementations in this final phase: Google Drive Integration: Developed a custom GoogleDriveProvider implementing OAuth 2.0 for secure authentication. The system handles silent sign-in and utilizes the Google Drive REST API for all remote operations. Automated Backup Engine: Implemented background synchronization using WorkManager to handle periodic backups. The system is designed to distinguish between manual and automatic snapshots, organizing them into dedicated directory structures within the cloud environment. Intelligent Retention Policy: Engineered a user-configurable retention system. The logic automatically manages storage overhead by purging the oldest backups once a user-defined threshold is reached, ensuring efficient use of cloud storage. State Management and Diagnostics: Enhanced the BackupViewModel with comprehensive logging for WorkInfo states. This provides granular visibility into the background lifecycle, ensuring the UI accurately reflects real-time synchronization status. PS: The latest release remain available on GitHub for those interested in having the application and trying it out. If you want to try out the application and do the google drive backups, please let me know your email id from which you want to sign-in on the application, I will add it to the testing users list. Using google API costs money (don't know why I thought it would be free, even though I work in cloud myself). #Gemini #AndroidDev #MobileSecurity #SoftwareEngineering #CloudSync #GoogleDriveAPI #Kotlin #JetpackCompose #Cryptography #PrivacyByDesign #OpenSource #PasswordManager #SoftwareArchitecture