Recent Blog ArticlesNewest TopicsMost LikesTagged:TagAzure capacity planning: Using quotas, reservations, vmss instance mix, and compute fleet 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...Azure Monitor 101: The missing guide to understanding monitoring on Azure 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...Monitoring Azure OpenAI without switching from your existing observability platform 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 ...Azure routing preference: A hidden lever for performance vs. cost trade-offs 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...Azure Quota Alerts (Preview): Still overlooked, but incredibly useful 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...Azure Support Slack Bot on Azure Container Apps: Production-ready guide 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...A practical guide to Azure VM SKU capacity monitoring Look, Azure capacity hiccups can really derail your day. You don’t get any warning—no “Heads up, we’re almost out of your preferred VM SKU”—you just try to create a VM and boom: error. After o...The Digital Native's Checklist for Azure: Stuff I wish every startup knew I’ve had the chance to work with a bunch of digital native customers — you know, those fast-moving, API-first, cloud-from-day-zero teams building the next big thing. And while no two startups are eve...Azure OpenAI best practices: A quick-reference guide to optimize your deployments Contributors: Ahmed Chowdhury As organizations increasingly integrate Azure OpenAI into their applications, it's essential to be aware of the comprehensive best practices that Microsoft has publish...AKS networking made easy: Your comprehensive guide Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is not just about deploying containerized applications—it’s also about architecting robust, secure, and efficient network connectivity for your clusters. In this blog p...
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