What this post is. A hands-on, reproducible walkthrough of ten real production failure modes — App Service, AKS, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, VMs, VM Scale Sets, Application Gateway, and Service Bus — ea...

Turning non-production VMs off at night is the easiest Azure saving there is. Doing it without causing an outage is the part nobody writes about. This is an open-source scheduler that takes that savi...

Mandatory Deadline: The Compliance Security Profile (CSP) becomes mandatory for processing HIPAA, HITRUST, and IRAP regulated data on Azure Databricks by September 1, 2026.  Permanent Change: Ena...

In Part 1 we made the case for an operations copilot that runs inside your own tenant. In Part 2, the Azure Support Agent's war room of specialist agents root-caused a live 5xx in about ninety second...

If you've spent any time working with Power Automate in enterprise environments, you've seen it happen. A business-critical flow fails on a Friday afternoon. The person who built it left the company ...

Which model families matter, what each one is for, and how to choose through the Well-Architected lens. July 2026. Views are my own, not Microsoft guidance. Model availability, status tags, and cap...

In Part 1 we made the case for the Azure Support Agent, an operations copilot that runs in your own tenant and reasons over live evidence through Azure's own APIs. This post opens the first pillar — ...

Modern cloud applications are expected to remain resilient - they must observe, protect, recover, and preserve service continuity when workloads begin to behave unpredictably. This includes scenarios...

Picture a busy afternoon: an app starts throwing 5xx, and you go looking for why. The good news is that Azure almost certainly already holds the answer. The Portal has the resource. Azure Resource Gr...

Purpose Regulated organizations - banks, insurers, healthcare providers - increasingly run Azure Machine Learning on compute instances that have no outbound internet access. Their data scientists s...