Bicep Archives - Ronak Makwana

June 16, 2026

Featured image: Event Hubs vs Service Bus vs Event Grid, three coloured columns with each service's icon, labelled streams, commands and notifications

Event Hubs vs Service Bus vs Event Grid: Choosing the Right Azure Messaging Service

Event Hubs, Service Bus and Event Grid compared: streams vs messages vs notifications, ordering, replay, dead-lettering and delivery guarantees, with a decision guide and a Bicep example.

June 4, 2026

Featured image: Event Hubs partitions and consumer groups, a large Azure Event Hubs icon with a Kafka protocol badge

Azure Event Hubs Explained: Architecture, Partitions, and Consumer Groups

How Azure Event Hubs works under the hood: partitions and partition keys, sizing the partition count, consumer groups, checkpoints and tier limits, with Bicep and Python examples.

February 24, 2026

Featured image: Securing data pipelines with managed identity, with a large Azure Key Vault icon and a managed identity icon on a teal background

Securing Azure Data Pipelines with Managed Identity and Key Vault

Remove secrets from Azure data pipelines: a user-assigned managed identity with least-privilege roles in Bicep, Entra-only SQL access, Key Vault for what's left, Databricks storage credentials, and audit logging.

February 2, 2026

Featured image: Building a modern data platform on Azure, with a left-to-right pipeline of icons for source systems, Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Azure Databricks and Power BI on a blueprint grid

Building a Modern Data Engineering Platform on Microsoft Azure

A guided build of a lakehouse-style data platform on Azure: ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Databricks with Unity Catalog, Key Vault and Azure Monitor, deployed with Bicep and wired together with managed identities.