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...

You describe the problem. The assistant pulls the context from what you already have, drafts the ticket, files it, tracks the replies, and closes it out, and it asks before it does anything irre...

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...