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...

Part 1/3: The three permission systems everyone must understand Azure is a powerful cloud platform, but its governance model is widely misunderstood, especially in fast-moving, engineering-led orga...

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...

Recently, one of my customers asked me a simple but powerful question: “We already use Datadog for observability, but the rate-limit metrics we see in the Azure Portal don’t match what we get in ...

For Digital Native companies, every engineering decision is also a business decision. How you design your cloud architecture affects not just performance but also your burn rate, margins, and ul...

Quota limits are one of those hidden blockers that can catch digital native companies by surprise. You’re scaling fast, deploying more VMs or GPU nodes, and suddenly: “Quota exceeded.” Since late 2...

Launch a secure, scalable Slack bot for Azure support tickets in minutes — no secrets in code, no manual admin steps, and fully aligned with modern cloud-native best practices. This guide walks you...

Important clarification about “capacity” This guide does not provide real-time, deployable capacity signals for Azure VM SKUs. The solution is based on the Azure ResourceSkus API, which exp...