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Networking, VLANs, DNS, reverse proxies, and homelab engineering.

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Homelab VLANs and DNS-Based Policy Routing
·9 min read

Homelab VLANs and DNS-Based Policy Routing

How I segment a homelab with VLANs and route traffic through country-specific VPN tunnels, driven by a YAML intent file and Jinja2 templates on OpenWRT.

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Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture Principles
·10 min read

Azure Virtual Desktop Architecture Principles

Architecture principles for Azure Virtual Desktop: host pool design, FSLogix, MSIX App Attach, image lifecycle, and monitoring, from real deployments.

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Global Secure Access: Microsoft's SSE Play
·10 min read

Global Secure Access: Microsoft's SSE Play

A practical look at Microsoft's Global Secure Access SSE solution: what it does, how it works, and where it fits in a zero-trust architecture.

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