Andrew Matveychuk
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Andrew Matveychuk
@andrewmatveychuk.com
Hey! I'm an Azure and DevOps enthusiast, PowerShell chaos monkey, avid reader and blogger. Helping people move to the Cloud.
My exploration of @radapp-io.bsky.social started with creating a @wordpress.org app on it and continued by contributing a Radius recipe for MySQL to the official recipe list. The fascinating part here is how your #opensource work can connect you with amazing people.

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Added the Radius.Data/mySqlDatabases resource type by andrewmatveychuk · Pull Request #46 · radius-project/resource-types-contrib
Added the Radius.Data/mySqlDatabases resource type that represents a MySQL database. The resource template is currently only available for the Kubernetes environment. Had to use the '2023-10-01...
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September 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The recording 🎬 of the webinar we ran with Michael Stephenson last week is live. Feel free to catch up on the best practices for optimizing compute costs in Microsoft Azure 👇

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Optimizing Compute Costs in Azure – Expert Strategies
Discover proven strategies to optimize Azure compute costs. Get expert tips from Andrew Matveychuk on reducing cloud spend and avoiding common pitfalls.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I’ve been watching the development of the Radius project (@radapp-io.bsky.social) for a while, and I finally dedicated some time to trying it.
Feel free to check my blog post about running WordPress (@wordpress.org) as a Radius app 👇

#radius #radapp #wordpress

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WordPress as a Radius application
I’ve been watching the development of Radius, a new application hosting platform that originated in the Microsoft Azure Incubations team and later became a CNCF project, for a while, and I finally managed to dedicate some time to trying it in practic...
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June 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It has been a while since I wrote anything about #AzurePolicy. In my recent blog post, I explored different ways to #test your Azure Policy definitions, from validating their syntax to evaluating their effect on your resource deployments. Check it out here 👇

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How to test Azure Policy
It has been some time since I wrote my Azure Policy Starter Guide, in which I briefly touched upon the challenges of testing custom Azure Policy definitions. Azure Policy testing still remains an open question for me, offering a lot of room for vario...
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June 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In my last blog post, I explore some unobvious approaches to optimizing #Azure #App #Service costs. Check them out using the link below 👇

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Azure App Service Cost optimization strategies that you won’t get from Azure Advisor
Optimize your Azure App Service costs with strategies focusing on App Service plans consolidation, rightsizing, autoscaling, and network isolation
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February 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Over the Christmas holidays, I migrated my blog from #Ghost (Pro) to #Hashnode. If you notice any errors or broken links, please let me know.
Please feel free to check my blog post on that topic about the #migration reasons and the process itself 👇

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Switching from Ghost to Hashnode
Announcement I’ve migrated my blog from Ghost(Pro) to Hashnode. All links should be working, but please let me know if you encounter something broken or missing. Reasons I used Ghost to run my blog for many years, self-hosting it first and becoming ...
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January 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM