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...

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...

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...

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...