When an Azure region has a bad day, your customers usually notice at the same time you do, or before. The signal already exists: Azure Service Health publishes outages, planned maintenance and adviso...

A snapshot, as of October 2026. Azure's inference options keep evolving, so the number of options may change, and there may be more in the future. This post covers what's available today. This guid...

Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part Azure Container Apps series. This time, we’ll explore how to monitor resource consumption, detect over-provisioned applications, and right-size ACA workloads for b...

Welcome to Part 1 of our three-part blog series, where we begin exploring the topic in depth. This part is all about Concepts, Scaling, and Dedicated profile cost.  It does not cover Consumption pr...

FintTech Startups needs agility and speed FinTech startups operate in an environment where speed matters. They need to move quickly from an idea to a production-ready financial product, often with ...

TL;DR: Azure SRE Agent is great at reactive incident response, but doesn't cover proactive operations out of the box. I built an open-source pack of 8 custom skills that add governance audits, FinOps...

What I cover when a customer asks "we want to build AI applications on Azure, where do we start?" TL;DR: Azure AI Foundry is the unified platform for building AI apps on Azure. Start with Standar...

Most startups I work with have between 3 and 15 engineers. None of them have a dedicated SRE. The infrastructure runs on Azure, the team ships fast, and reliability is everyone's job until something ...

I recently had to dig into why a customer's H100 VMs couldn't do distributed training on Azure. They had ND-series capacity allocated, the hardware was there, but the VMs weren't connected over Infin...

Most startups I work with have Service Health alerts configured on at least one subscription. That part's fine. The problem is they usually have it set up for Service Issues only, on their main subsc...