EKS vs AKS vs GKE: An Honest Comparison From Running All Three in Production
EKS vs AKS vs GKE is really three comparisons in one: cost, networking, and day-2 operations. We have run production workloads on all three managed Ku…
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SDLC in the AI Era with Spec-Driven Development
AI can generate an endpoint, a test fixture or a deployment manifest in seconds. That speed is useful, but it does not solve the expensive part of sof…
Lowering your DNS TTL will not speed up your failover, and here is the data showing why
I spent three months measuring multi-cloud DNS failover for my final-year dissertation. The most useful thing I learned contradicts common advice, so …
Azure AI Search in 2026, how to build a RAG pipeline
Most RAG tutorials online show the same pattern: take a document, split it into chunks, generate embeddings, store them in a vector database, and when…
Why Your EWS Impersonation Suddenly Stopped Working (And It's Probably Not Throttling)
Two months ago I picked up a ticket that looked routine: a job that reads mailbox data from Microsoft 365 through EWS, running fine for over a year, s…
Deploying SFTPGo as an Azure Storage SFTP Alternative on Linux
Azure Storage SFTP is Microsoft's managed file transfer service on top of Azure Blob Storage, convenient, but billed continuously per endpoint (roughl…
Claims AI Operations Platform
I’ve built a working proof-of-concept prototype for a Claims AI Operations Platform that demonstrates claim intake, validation, orchestration, routing…
I built a free Azure naming tool that knows every resource type's rules
Every Azure team needs a naming convention, and Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework defines a good one. The annoying part is that the rules are scatt…
Using Azure Policy to prevent unscoped blob lifecycle rules
Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management is a nice way to move blobs between tiers or delete them after a certain amount of time. You configure the rul…
Azure Logic Apps vs Function Apps: Choosing the Right Tool for the Integration
Two Azure services can look nearly identical on paper. Both connect systems. Both can call an external API, transform data along the way, and handle e…
kubeadm init fails with "the number of available CPUs 1 is less than the required 2" on an Azure B1s VM — how I fixed it
While setting up a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on Azure VMs, I hit this error when running sudo kubeadm init on a Standard_B1s VM (1 vCPU / 1 GB R…
Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry
This closes out the series' capstone: the multi-agent customer support system built across Parts 6-9, now hardened with evaluation, cost governance, a…
FaroIQ: how I built a 9-agent pipeline for nonprofits with Azure AI Foundry
I'm Carlos, a Software Design student at the National University of Catamarca, Argentina. This post covers how I built FaroIQ during the Microsoft Age…
What Three Fictional Startups Taught Me About Structured, Semi-Structured, and Unstructured Data on Azure
I'm currently transitioning into cloud engineering and DevOps, and one thing I've learned quickly is that understanding a concept in theory is very di…
Things I learned building my first multi-agent AI system on Azure + NVIDIA
I recently built a multi-agent customer support system on Azure AI Foundry and NVIDIA NIM. First time doing anything like this. Made four predictions …
Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What
If you're building a data platform on Azure in 2026, you're going to be asked this question: Azure Databricks or Microsoft Fabric? Both run on Delta L…
I ran 1,852 cloud provisioning tests. GCP takes twice as long as AWS to spin up a Postgres database.
I've been running automated provisioning benchmarks across AWS, Azure, and GCP for over a year. Every few hours, a script provisions a fresh managed P…
Day 2 — I Stopped Being a Student and Started Acting Like a DevOps Engineer
This is Day 2 of my 90-day cloud engineering challenge. Day 1 was about installing tools and getting familiar with the Azure CLI. Day 2 was different …
I built a private Copilot alternative that never lets your data leave your Microsoft 365 tenant
For the last while I've been building Privault — a private AI knowledge assistant that runs inside a company's own Microsoft 365 tenant. No data leave…
Azure Databricks for MLOps and Feature Engineering at Scale with Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow
Raw data doesn't win model competitions. Features do. And when your raw data is tens of billions of rows sitting across multiple sources, you can't af…
Introducing Cloud Compass: Cloud News, Concepts, and Insights Without the Overwhelm
👋 Hi DEV Community! I'm the creator of Cloud Compass , a newsletter dedicated to making cloud computing easier to understand. If you've ever felt over…
Azure App Configuration vs. Azure Key Vault
Rule of thumb : Secrets → Key Vault Configs → App Configuration Use both for secure + flexible configuration management. Azure Key Vault Purpose : Sec…
I stopped watching Azure tutorials and passed AZ-900. Here's what I changed.
I had bookmarked every AZ-900 resource on the internet. Savill. Microsoft Learn. FreeCodeCamp. Andrew Brown. I'd watched probably 50 hours of content …
Mastering Azure Management Task: A Hands-On Project (Part 2)
Securing Your Virtual Network with Subnets and Network Security Groups In Part 1, we built the foundation of our Azure environment: a resource group, …
Azure Cosmos DB and Blob Storage: When SQL Is Not the Right Tool
Every post on my blog so far has used Azure SQL - a relational database with a fixed schema, queried with standard SQL. That has been the right choice…
How I replaced three Azure emulators with one binary, added Key Vault and ACR, and cut my CI setup to a single step
For a while, local Azure development in my projects looked like this: Azurite for Blob and Queue Storage, the Microsoft Service Bus Emulator for messa…
Cinema Seat Reservation System — Part 2: Transitioning To Production-Scale and Deploying on Azure Cloud
Introduction This is the second part of sharing my journey to create a microservices-based backend system, in the previous part, I introduced the syst…
Bye AZ-204, hello AI-200: What you need to know about the new Azure developer certification
Hi lovely readers, If you have been working toward your AZ-204 certification or have been thinking about starting, there is something important you ne…
How I Built the Cloud Resume Challenge (And What Actually Tripped Me Up)
From Static HTML to Cloud Infrastructure: My Cloud Resume Challenge Journey When I first read about the Cloud Resume Challenge , I knew that it would …
Azure Key Vault: Where Every Secret in This Blog Actually Lives
I have written some version of "never hardcode secrets, store them in Key Vault instead" in at least five of my last nine posts on this blog. I never …