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Azure and rsync

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:05:10 -0800

I’m not actually referring to the rsync command that a lot of us know and love.

I’m referring to azcopy sync.

I sometimes use this to copy over files from the generated public/ folder that Hugo creates for me to my Azure blob store. That’s where this site is stored.

In another post, I wrote about a handy VSCode plugin that I use when uploading changes to this site. Unfortunately, this one deletes everything and re-uploads everything.

Azure (currently) runs this site

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:36:02 -0800

In the world of cloud providers, there are generally three big ones - Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and, of course, Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS has by far the lion’s share of the market, but mainly because they were the first to said market.

Each have enabled all kinds of development from small to medium companies so that they don’t have to set up a bunch of servers, letting them sit idle most of the time.