Using Resource Manager templates to create virtual networks

Here is a good tutorial that covers a lot of infrastructure-as-code concepts in the context of creating a virtual network with two subnets using Resource manager templates (also referred to as Azure Resource Manager, or ARM, templates).

Cloud Services on Snowflake

Snowflake has three layers of architecture: storage, compute and cloud services. While Snowflake is available on a number of clouds i.e. AWS, GCP and Azure, not all cloud services are available on all cloud platforms. For example, Azure Private link is not fully supported. However there are some interesting considerations here.

How does Snowflake store data?

There are many "big data" technologies out there one of them being Snowflake. Snowflake lets you run SQL queries on data which is stored in Snowflake's internal columnar format optimized for cloud storage.

gRPC for .NET

The recommended library for using gRPC in .NET is grpc/grpc-dotnet under the Apache 2.0 license (The original implementation is now deprecated). 

gRPC is a (language agnostic) remote procedure call framework designed for high performance.

gRPC is often used with protobuf with coding structured around .proto files explained here.  One of the reasons for high performance is compact binary serialization of these so-called protocol buffers.

Common use cases include gRPC authentication (gRPC can converse with a variety of authentication systems), compression and other distributed communication scenarios. 

It's first commit was made internal to Google in December 2013 and was made public on Github in 2015. Google was doing RPC with protocol buffers for years and years,  but needed to expose APIs for public consumption. In 2017, gRPC was donated to the CNCF.  More complex features were incorporated like Flatbuffer, which is for serialization - where you can use the data without full deserialization (originally used for games). Observability features have also been built into gRPC since its initial release.

gRPC is used by Netflix and Facebook and Google of course.