Recent Blog ArticlesNewest TopicsMost LikesTagged:TagIntroducing the Startup-Scale Landing Zone: Get Azure right from day one 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...Production-grade API Gateway patterns for Microsoft Foundry 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...When and why startups add a gateway in front of Microsoft Foundry 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...The comprehensive playbook for Identity, Resource, and Billing Separation 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...Azure 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...
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