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Six Cross-Cloud A2A Paths, One Benchmark: How AWS, Azure, and GCP Agents Actually Work Together
Over the last six articles in this series I built the same currency benchmark six times, each time changing which cloud gives the orders and which clo…
Six Cross-Cloud A2A Paths, One Benchmark: How AWS, Azure, and GCP Agents Actually Work Together
Over the last six articles in this series I built the same currency benchmark six times, each time changing which cloud gives the orders and which clo…
Optimizing an 18 TB Azure SQL Hyperscale Database — Part 2: Smoothing the CPU Load
Previously: we migrated this database from Azure SQL Managed Instance to Azure SQL Hyperscale — not because of its size at the time, but because we co…
Can Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Talk to Microsoft Foundry over A2A?
I wanted to test one specific path: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) | +-- MCP --> live exchange-rate tool | +-- A2A v1.0 --> Microsoft Foundry ho…
Subscription-per-environment was never the real question
Every landing zone conversation eventually lands on the same fork: subscription-per-team or subscription-per-environment. Pick one, defend it in the d…
Can Google ADK Talk to Microsoft Foundry on Azure? A Cross-Cloud A2A Benchmark
This article provides a step-by-step guide to building and testing a cross-cloud currency agent. A coordinator hosted on Microsoft Foundry in Azure ca…
Proving Zero Trust Actually Works: Entra ID + Cloudflare Access over Both OIDC and SAML
Most Zero Trust write-ups stop at "user signs in, user gets access." That's not where these integrations actually break. They break on group membershi…
Designing for the Surge: The Real-World Cost of Separating Reads and Writes
At seven o'clock every Monday morning, thousands of workers on active heavy construction sites log into their mobile devices to complete mandatory equ…
Picking the Latest Kubernetes Release on AKS Without Shooting Yourself in the Foot
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Balancing Peak-Load Scaling and User Experience with CQRS
At 4:30 PM every Friday, thousands of field workers on remote construction sites log off and submit their weekly hours, safety checklists, and equipme…
One Copy, Two Engines: Architecting a Governed Lakehouse Across Fabric and Azure Databricks
For most of the last decade, the honest answer to "should we standardize on Databricks or on the Microsoft data platform?" was: pick one and live with…
Foundry Hosted vs In-Process vs Copilot Studio Agents (2026 Decision)
A team lead asks the question in a planning meeting and the room splits three ways: do we build this agent in Copilot Studio, write the orchestration …
The decision framework I wish I'd had before studying AI-103
I recently passed Microsoft AI-103: Developing AI Solutions on Microsoft Azure with a score of 880/1000. What many people don't know is that I didn't …
Building Production-Grade Semantic Search with GPT-5 and Microsoft Foundry, From Scratch
Most "RAG tutorials" stop at a single embedding query against a single index. That works for a demo and falls over the moment a real user asks somethi…
Building a Stateful Multi-Agent System with LangGraph and Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, From Scratch
LangGraph gives you fine-grained control over agent state and routing logic in code. Microsoft Foundry gives you managed hosting, identity, tracing, a…
From A10 to M60: An Architect's Journey into Azure GPU VM Sizing for Kubernetes Inference Workloads
How an unexpected regional constraint forced us to deeply understand Azure GPU VM families, naming conventions, and workload fit. Introduction As arch…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…