A real design review: management groups, policies, break-glass accounts, and the five things I'd tweak before going to production. Here's what I see at most startups when they first show up on Azur...

If you've ever had a production VM go unhealthy on Azure and found yourself scrambling to figure out what happened, you're not alone. I work with startups running production workloads on Azure, and t...

Part 3 of 3: The implementation playbook for engineering, finance, and security teams In Part 1, we established Azure's three-plane model: Entra for identity, RBAC for resources, Commerce for billi...

Part 2 of 3: Where resource deployment meets financial authority and how to govern it In Part 1, we established the foundational model: Azure operates on three completely separate permission planes...

If you've been following this blog, you may recall the post From Zero to Hero with Azure Landing Zones, where we walked through the full Azure Landing Zone journey, from identity and RBAC to Platform...

Most startup teams start with the simplest thing that can work. One or two apps call Microsoft Foundry model endpoints directly, traffic is predictable, and “routing” is just a config value in the ap...

Note: This post focuses on when and why startups begin adopting a gateway in front of Microsoft Foundry. In a follow-up article, we’ll go into a technical deep dive, covering design decisions, oper...

Series: Azure Governance for Digital Natives and Startups: This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on Azure governance for digital-native companies scaling on Azure.  Part 1 (this post): The three-pl...

Introduction  Over the past few months, I’ve been helping several digital-native customers navigate capacity constraints while scaling AI and compute-intensive workloads on Azure. Many teams run in...

Introduction Monitoring in the cloud is often misunderstood. Some think it’s about checking whether a virtual machine is up; others equate it with dashboards or alerts. In reality, monitoring is ab...